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Hyderabad Voter Mapping Raises Questions Over Electoral Roll Verification
Election officials first mapped voters to check whether their records matched older voter lists.
In four Hyderabad constituencies, many mapped voters were later placed in categories such as dead, shifted or absent.
The total in these categories was more than 1.52 lakh people.
Analysts said this was too large to be treated as a routine correction.
Civil society groups said voters should be able to see what happened to their cases.
They also asked officials to publish information about notices, hearings and decisions online.
Pre-SIR mapping is meant to connect current voters with older electoral records.
The groups want the verification process to be more transparent.
More than 1.52 lakh mapped electors in four Hyderabad constituencies were classified as dead, shifted or absent/untraceable.
The total included 24,449 voters listed as deceased, 87,914 as permanently shifted and 40,597 as absent or untraceable.
Yakutpura recorded the highest number of mapped voters, while Chandrayangutta had 23,750 listed as shifted.
Syed Khalid Saifullah said the figures raised serious questions about the consistency and credibility of the verification process.
Around 20 Telangana civil society groups sought online access to case details, notices, hearings and daily constituency-wise statistics.
- Who
- More than 1.52 lakh mapped electors, election officials, analysts and Telangana civil society groups are involved.
- What
- Mapped voters in four Hyderabad constituencies were later classified as deceased, permanently shifted, absent or untraceable.
- Where
- Chandrayangutta, Bahadurpura, Yakutpura and Charminar in Hyderabad, Telangana.
- When
- The mapping occurred before the Special Intensive Revision; civil society groups submitted their representation on Sunday. The articles do not specify the year or dates of the classifications.
- Why
- Analysts and civil society groups are seeking clarification and greater transparency over the voter-verification process.
Analysts and Civil Society Concerns
Election Verification Process
Scale of the classifications
Analysts and Civil Society Concerns
Analysts said classifying more than 1.52 lakh mapped electors as dead, shifted or untraceable was too large to dismiss as routine electoral-roll cleaning.
Election Verification Process
The articles do not provide a response from election authorities explaining the classifications or disputing the figures.
Access to voter-case information
Analysts and Civil Society Concerns
Civil society groups demanded that notices, documents, hearing outcomes and claim decisions be uploaded and remain accessible online.
Election Verification Process
The articles report concerns about a lack of transparency but do not state the authorities’ position on publishing these details.
Key facts
- Total affected electors
- 1,52,960 mapped electors were classified as dead, permanently shifted or absent/untraceable.
- Deceased
- 24,449 mapped electors were listed as deceased.
- Permanently shifted
- 87,914 mapped electors were listed as permanently shifted.
- Absent or untraceable
- 40,597 mapped electors were classified as absent or untraceable.
- Constituencies
- Chandrayangutta, Bahadurpura, Yakutpura and Charminar.
- Largest mapped constituency
- Yakutpura had 47,200 mapped electors.
- Requested transparency measures
- Civil society groups sought accessible case documents, hearing and claim-status details, plus daily constituency-wise statistics.
Quotes
Syed Khalid Saifullah
DCC president who analysed data from four Hyderabad constituencies
“This is not a small discrepancy that can be dismissed as routine electoral-roll cleaning. We are talking about more than 1.52 lakh voters in just four Assembly constituencies of Hyderabad, who were first successfully mapped, and were later shown as dead, permanently shifted or untraceable.”
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“How such a large number of voters who had gone through this mapping process could subsequently fall into categories suggesting that they were no longer available at the same status ?”
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Telangana civil society groups and social activists
Representatives and activists seeking greater transparency in SIR proceedings
“The CEO should publish daily statistics or a daily bulletin on the portal, constituency-wise, showing the number of notices issued, the number of voters who attended hearings, the number of voters whose claims were approved, and the number of voters whose claims were not approved or were rejected.”
deccanchronicle.com
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