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Draft Electoral Roll Errors Leave Hyderabad Voters Facing Notices
The Election Commission found many problems in Hyderabad’s draft voter list.
Some voters’ names or family details may have been entered incorrectly.
Other voters could not be matched with earlier records.
Nearly 93 lakh people may receive notices asking them to check their information.
Voters say they gave correct information during the enumeration process.
They believe some mistakes may have happened when booth officers entered the details manually.
People may need to file Form 8 to correct errors.
Officials and political representatives also warned voters not to share OTPs or bank information with strangers claiming to help with verification.
Of 2,64,87,213 voters who submitted Enumeration Forms by August 10, 60,50,918 were marked with anomalies and 32,36,659 were classified as unmapped.
The figures could lead to nearly 93 lakh voters receiving notices from election officers.
Voters and a SIR volunteer blamed possible manual-entry mistakes by booth-level officers for incorrect names, relationships and mapping details.
Some voters reported changed polling booths, new serial numbers and difficulty locating their names in the draft rolls published on August 17.
A Congress committee leader warned that fraudsters could use draft-roll information to seek OTPs, bank details or other sensitive data.
- Who
- Hyderabad voters, booth-level officers, election officers, the Election Commission, and local political representatives are involved.
- What
- Errors and unmapped records in the draft electoral rolls may result in nearly 93 lakh voters receiving notices and seeking corrections.
- Where
- Hyderabad, including areas such as Banjara Hills.
- When
- Enumeration Forms were submitted by August 10, and the draft electoral rolls were published on August 17.
- Why
- The notices are being prepared because voters were marked with anomalies or could not be mapped to earlier electoral records; some voters attribute the problems to manual data-entry mistakes.
Key facts
- Forms submitted
- 2,64,87,213 voters had submitted Enumeration Forms by August 10.
- Voters with anomalies
- 60,50,918 voters were recorded as having anomalies.
- Unmapped voters
- 32,36,659 voters were classified as unmapped.
- Potential notices
- Nearly 93 lakh voters may receive notices from election officers.
- Correction process
- Voters may have to submit Form 8 to correct inaccurate details.
- Draft-roll publication
- The draft electoral rolls were published on August 17.
- Fraud warning
- Voters were warned that fraudsters might seek OTPs, bank details or other sensitive information while pretending to conduct SIR verification.
Quotes
M.A. Mujeeb Ayyub
SIR volunteer and founder of ADALAH – Access to Justice Network
“During the Enumeration Phase, the voters were careful enough to provide details, particularly in the names and relationship columns, as well as details of pre-SIR mapping. However, the BLOs, under pressure to complete the task at the earliest, might have made mistakes during manual entry, which have crept into the draft list.”
deccanchronicle.com
“My family members felt that the SIR process had been completed, as the BLOs had visited and collected the forms. They were not ready to accept the fact that they could receive notices. But given the massive number of anomalies, there is a possibility that one in three voters will receive notices.”
deccanchronicle.com
Sources
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