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1.08 crore Karnataka voters flagged for draft electoral roll deletion
At least 1.08 crore Karnataka voters, 19.47% of the state’s 5.54 crore electorate, have been placed in the ASDDO (Absent, Shifted, Duplicate, Dead and Others) category under the Election Commission’s Special Intensive…
At least 1.08 crore Karnataka voters, 19.47% of the state’s 5.54 crore electorate, have been placed in the ASDDO (Absent, Shifted, Duplicate, Dead and Others) category under the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, the highest draft-stage deletion rate in the country. The draft roll is to be published on August 24. Siasat reports that 46.88 lakh of those flagged voters are in Bengaluru alone, with BJP-held seats accounting for 27.69 lakh and Congress-held seats for 16.79 lakh.
The Hindu reports that over 2.41 lakh enumeration forms are still pending digitisation, and the data shows more than 60% of forms processed daily are added to the ASDDO list. The CEO V. Anbu Kumar has said mahazars were conducted in all cases and that affected voters can file claims and objections until September 23 before the final roll is published on October 27. Earlier, on August 5, the CEO agreed to make the ASDDO list public after pressure from civil society groups.
India Today notes that of the 1.08 crore flagged, 65.61 lakh had permanently shifted address, 15.28 lakh were untraceable, 16.38 lakh were deceased, and 7.07 lakh were duplicate or fake entries. The final roll will be released on October 27 after the claims process ends.
Indian Opinion Analysis
The Hindu’s two pieces and India Today provide a neutral, data-heavy account of the SIR process, while Siasat adds a sharp political frame by breaking down ASDDO figures by party-held constituencies. The pro-government reading, implicit in the CEO’s assurances that parties were given lists every two hours, emphasises procedural transparency and migration as the main cause. The critical reading, led by The Hindu’s explainer, highlights confusion over form-filling, inconsistent training, and a three-lakh unexplained drop in the ASDDO count between August 5 and 17. Neither side offers a definitive verdict on whether deletions are legitimate or flawed, the measured takeaway is that the scale (1.08 crore voters) invites scrutiny, with the claims-and-objections window from August 24 to September 23 as the real test. Watch the objection-filing rate in Bengaluru South, 3.63 lakh voters on the list, to gauge whether the process works.
Coverage: 4 sources, 2 government-critical, 1 neutral, 1 sensationalist
Sources (4): thehindu.com (government critical), thehindu.com (2) (government critical), indiatoday.in (neutral report), siasat.com (sensationalist)
This story was synthesised by AI from the 4 sources linked above.
Updated: this story now draws on 4 sources.
