2 weeks ago
Congress Scrutinizes ASDD Voter Anomalies Ahead of Electoral Draft
Before elections, the government checks the big list of names of people who can vote.
This list is called the electoral roll.
In the erstwhile Adilabad district, a special checking of the list is happening, called the Special Intensive Revision.
During the checking, some problems were found: some names belong to people who have passed away, some have moved away, some are still there, and some names are written twice.
The Congress party is worried that the cleaning-up might accidentally remove the names of real voters.
So the party is telling its workers to check the new draft list carefully.
The draft list will be published on August 17.
If someone's name is missing, that person can ask to be added again.
People who moved to another place can fill a form called Form 8 to change where they vote.
The party wants to make sure no one who can vote is left off the list.
Congress is focusing on ASDD (absent, shifted, deceased and duplicate) voters and uncollectable votes found during the Special Intensive Revision of the electoral roll in the erstwhile Adilabad district.
The party will instruct its BLAs and DCCs to check draft voters lists and ensure genuine voters' names are not deleted.
District in-charge minister Jupally Krishna Rao will review the situation and give directions to party BLAs, coordinators and DCC presidents.
The Election Commission plans to publish the electoral draft on August 17, after which voters can apply for inclusion or use Form 8 to shift their vote.
Nirmal district has 44,307 uncollectable enumeration forms (16.78%), while the Adilabad assembly constituency has 38,668 ASDD names.
- Who
- Congress party leaders and workers in the erstwhile Adilabad district, including district in-charge minister Jupally Krishna Rao.
- What
- Reviewing large numbers of ASDD (absent, shifted, deceased, duplicate) voters and uncollectable enumeration forms found during the Special Intensive Revision of the electoral roll, and planning to ensure genuine voters' names are not deleted.
- Where
- The erstwhile Adilabad district, covering the Nirmal, Adilabad, Boath, Mancherial and Asifabad assembly constituencies.
- When
- Ahead of the Election Commission's planned publication of the electoral draft on August 17.
- Why
- To avoid any loss of votes for the party in future polls by protecting genuine voters whose names could be removed.
Congress Party
Election Officials
Handling of machine-detected voter anomalies
Congress Party
Congress says the revision process may wrongly delete genuine voters, so it will check the draft lists and take up valid names for inclusion to avoid any loss of votes for the party.
Election Officials
Officials said the machine detected the anomalies when BLOs uploaded elector details as part of the SIR process, and that officials cannot do anything to rectify them.
Key facts
- Special Intensive Revision
- SIR of the electoral roll in the erstwhile Adilabad district
- Draft publication date
- August 17
- Nirmal district electors
- 264,670
- Nirmal uncollectable forms
- 44,307 (16.78%) of 219,763 distributed
- Adilabad constituency ASDD
- 38,668 names
- Boath constituency ASDD
- 23,551 names
- Mancherial uncollectable forms
- 66,578
- Asifabad UEF voters
- 23,201 of 226,680 forms distributed
Quotes
Pasula Chanti
Congress coordinator for SIR, Boath constituency
“"the machine detected anomalies when the BLOs uploaded the details of the electors as part of the SIR process, and that the officials can’t do anything to rectify them."”
deccanchronicle.com
“"He said many BLOs and BLAs didn’t have full knowledge of the SIR process vis‑à‑vis collection of details of electors."”
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