# Rajasthan local poll rolls have 30 lakh extra voters: Activist 2026-11-08T10:26:33+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 2 independent outlets Nearly 30 lakh voters listed in Rajasthan's electoral rolls for local body elections do not appear in the Election Commission's final list after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, activist Nikhil Dey has alleged, according to PTI. The Election Commission's final SIR roll, published in February 2026, reduced the state's electorate from 5.47 crore to 5.15 crore after deleting 44.28 lakh names and adding 12.91 lakh. However, the State Election Commission's (SEC) rolls for the same 199 Assembly constituencies still carry about 5.45 crore names, a gap of nearly 30 lakh voters. SEC Secretary Rajesh Verma said the commission used the pre-SIR roll (updated January 1, 2025) as local poll preparations began before the SIR was completed. Chief Electoral Officer Naveen Mahajan confirmed this and said no objections were received against the final roll. Dey questioned how names marked deceased in one roll remain in another. ## Indian Opinion Analysis Both Times of India and New Indian Express report the same facts from PTI, attributing the SEC's use of the pre-SIR roll to procedural timing. Neither outlet adopts a critical or pro-government stance, coverage is uniform and neutral. Dey's objections are reported without endorsement, and the SEC's explanation is presented as given. The core dispute, whether continued use of outdated rolls is a technical necessity or an administrative failure, is left open. No next step, such as a legal challenge or SEC review, is named by either source. ## Coverage Coverage: 2 sources, 2 neutral - timesofindia.indiatimes.com (neutral report) Straight PTI wire copy, attributes without slant. - newindianexpress.com (neutral report) Same PTI wire copy, no editorial framing added. This brief was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above, so one read covers every framing they carry. Tags: Election Commission of India, Nikhil Dey, PTI, Rajasthan, Rajasthan State Election Commission Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/rajasthan-local-poll-rolls-have-30-lakh-extra-voters-activist/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/rajasthan-local-poll-rolls-have-30-lakh-extra-voters-activist/#story-in-brief How this brief was made: an AI model read the reports linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. Stance labels are editorial classifications of how each outlet framed this story, assigned by the same model, not ratings of the outlets. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/