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Telangana Draft Electoral Rolls Draw Frustration Over Difficult Checks
Telangana has published a new draft list of registered voters.
People are trying to check whether their names are still included.
However, the checking system requires them to find the right constituency, polling station and PDF file.
Some PDFs are pictures, so users cannot easily search them by name.
The national voter website can search using an EPIC number, but not in these new draft lists.
Lists of people marked absent, shifted, dead or duplicated are only available in Telugu.
This makes checking difficult for some voters.
People can still submit corrections or objections until September 16.
Telangana released draft electoral rolls after completing the Special Intensive Revision exercise.
Voters must navigate Assembly constituencies, polling stations and parts before downloading relevant PDF rolls.
Many PDFs are image-based, making standard text searches such as “Ctrl+F” ineffective.
The national voter portal’s EPIC search does not include the newly released draft rolls.
ASDD lists are available only in Telugu, while claims and objections remain open until September 16.
- Who
- Telangana voters, the Election Commission of India and the Telangana Chief Electoral Officer are involved.
- What
- Draft electoral rolls released after a Special Intensive Revision have prompted complaints about difficult verification procedures.
- Where
- Telangana, including Hyderabad.
- When
- The draft rolls were released on Monday; claims and objections are open until September 16.
- Why
- Voters say the system is difficult because it relies on cumbersome PDFs, unclear navigation and Telugu-only ASDD lists.
Voters’ Concerns
Election Officials’ Position
Access to draft rolls
Voters’ Concerns
Voters say the PDF-based system is unnecessarily complicated and makes it difficult to determine whether their names remain on the rolls.
Election Officials’ Position
The authorities have published the rolls and retained a claims-and-objections process through September 16, but the article does not report a detailed official response to the complaints.
Checking flagged records
Voters’ Concerns
Citizens say Telugu-only ASDD lists create serious accessibility problems for people who cannot read Telugu.
Election Officials’ Position
Election officials stress that absent, shifted, dead and duplicate cases must be carefully re-verified so genuine voters are not wrongly removed.
Key facts
- Revision
- Special Intensive Revision of Telangana electoral rolls
- Release
- Draft rolls were released on Monday
- Verification method
- Voters must identify their Assembly constituency, polling station and relevant part
- PDF issue
- Several rolls are image-based rather than text-searchable
- Portal limitation
- The EPIC-based national voter search does not include the draft rolls
- ASDD lists
- Absent, Shifted, Dead and Duplicate lists are released only in Telugu
- Deadline
- Claims and objections are open until September 16
Quotes
Voter from Domalguda
An affected voter in Telangana
“This is an extraordinary failure of basic digital accessibility. First they took the forms and revised the existing rolls, and then made the voter feel scared about whether their vote was still in the roll or not. When one decides to open the rolls, they then intentionally decide to make our lives even harder”
deccanchronicle.com
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