Complaints of genuine electors having to run from pillar to post after being sent notices — many are flawed due to errors in the 2002 list used by the ECI for “mapping” or due to glitches in ad hoc software — have forced petitioners to raise questions. As seen during the SIR in Bihar, the Court has again had to issue guidelines to ease the process. This suggests that genuine electors who voted in 2024 have also been deleted. Furthermore, the process of deduplicating names has, in many cases, resulted in the deletion of electors’ names entirely. The question is no longer just about “cleaning the rolls” but also on whether genuine voters are being scrubbed off.

Source: The Hindu January 21, 2026 01:54 UTC