“Great, just as we expected”, was our first WhatsApp exchange with each other when the CEO of Assam released the draft voters’ list. AdvertisementBoth these experiments now provide rigorous scientific proof, or as close to it as we can get in real life, that the SIR carries a fatal design defect. The problem with the SIR, as we have kept saying, is not in the idea of an intensive revision of the voters’ list. The gender ratio in the voters’ list has declined in every state after the SIR. The number of persons on the ECI’s voters’ list before the SIR was already low, 15.4 crore.

Source: Indian Express December 30, 2025 10:43 UTC