Over 2 lakh voters in Ernakulam ‘unmapped’ as SIR enumeration ends

With the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls entering its last phase, implicit 2 lakh voters successful Ernakulam territory person been near ‘unmapped’ arsenic they person not been linked to the voters’ database from 2002, the basal papers for the ongoing exercise.

As of Thursday (December 18), the past day to implicit the enumeration process arsenic portion of SIR successful the State, 2,15,957 voters successful the territory were categorised arsenic ‘unmapped’. Though they person submitted their enumeration forms back, their details could not beryllium successfully linked to the electoral information from 2002, authoritative sources said.

The officials arrived astatine the fig arsenic the booth-level officers (BLOs) completed the digitisation of enumeration forms successful the territory connected Wednesday (December 17), a time earlier the deadline to implicit enumeration works.

A draught electoral rotation connected the ground of SIR enumeration is scheduled to beryllium published connected December 23.

Officials progressive successful SIR successful the territory said they purpose to trim to the maximum grade the fig of voters who volition person to beryllium called for a proceeding aft publishing the draught rolls. Those called for a proceeding volition person to nutrient either of the individuality proofs arsenic instructed by the Election Commission of India (ECI) to beryllium enrolled successful the caller electoral rolls.

“Among the forms digitised, determination are voters who could not hint details of their ain oregon their relatives from the 2002 list. They oregon their relatives would person been excluded from the 2002 database for 1 crushed oregon another, mostly since they failed to capable successful the required details during the SIR held then. Such voters person been categorised arsenic unmapped,” an predetermination authoritative said. The officials person repeatedly allayed fears implicit eligible voters getting excluded from the database pursuing SIR.

In a bid to hole the gap, Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) connected Thursday convened a gathering of the representatives of governmental parties astatine the Assembly constituency level. “If 1 tin find the required details from 2002, successful which governmental parties whitethorn help, we tin inactive adhd those details successful the enumeration forms, which person already been digitised,” an authoritative root said.

New electors are, meanwhile, being encouraged to capable up the Form 6 on with a declaration and taxable it to the booth-level officers oregon capable the signifier and declaration online utilizing the ECINet App/website https://voters.eci.gov.in/ to get their names included successful the last electoral rolls to beryllium published successful February 2026.