6.4 Million Names Excluded from State's SIR: Voter List Shrinks to 70.8 Million

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News18•14-02-2026, 21:11
6.4 Million Names Excluded from State's SIR: Voter List Shrinks to 70.8 Million
- •Approximately 6.5 million names have been excluded from the state's SIR process.
- •The first draft voter list saw 5,820,595 names removed, including deceased, untraceable, and duplicate voters.
- •This reduction brought the total number of voters in the draft list down to 70.8 million.
- •The Commission sent notices to 15.2 million voters for hearings, with 12 million for 'logical discrepancy' and 3.2 million unmapped voters.
- •498,000 voters did not attend hearings, and 163,000 who attended submitted unsatisfactory documents, leading to their exclusion.
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