Goa CEO says 97 missing voters now being enrolled

The Goa Chief Electoral Officer on Thursday clarified that 97 voters left out of the final electoral roll published in February 2026 are being processed through house-to-house visits and many have since been enrolled. The 97 had been found eligible by Electoral Registration Officers after logical discrepancies were flagged during the Special Intensive Revision, but were not included in the final roll because the ECINet system lacked a rollback facility to reverse earlier deletion decisions.

The CEO's office sent eight communications seeking a rollback facility before the final roll was published, but the facility was not enabled in time. The Election Commission has stated that ECINet has no provision for rollback once Form 7 is used for deletion, and that EROs retain their statutory powers. The clarification comes as opposition parties criticise the Election Commission over the exclusion, and amid reports that two Election Commissioners raised objections to decisions linked to the SIR process.