Bengaluru, 20 August

The Office of Electoral Officer (CEO) will serve notices to 43,80,740 citizens in Karnataka as part of the second phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Of this, 24,05,990 are from Bengaluru’s four districts alone.

In a statement on Thursday, the CEO also identified around 20.35 lakh voters whose enumeration forms place them under the ‘logical discrepancies category’. 

The logical discrepancies category has been opaque though much of the SIR exercises in various states across the country, and has even changed from state to state.

For Karnataka, the categories of anomalies include — a gap of less than 15 years or more than 50 years between a parent and progeny; a gap of less than 40 years between a voter and grandparent; different father’s names in the current and last SIR; a gap of less than nine months between siblings; more than six progenies mapped to a single parent. 

Notably, if a parent who is also present in the current enrolment of an SIR state is considered invalid, the progeny may be placed under the logical discrepancy category. 

These notices will be served by BLOs. 

Notably, over 1 crore voters are on the ASDDO list, meaning Karnataka could see high deletions. 

The draft rolls will be published on 24.