EC extends SIR deadline, BLOs get nine more days
BENGALURU: The Election Commission has extended the deadline for Karnataka’s electoral roll revision from August 8 to August 17, giving Booth Level Officers nine additional days to complete house-to-house verification and pushing publication of the draft electoral roll to August 24 after nearly half of Bengaluru’s electors were marked under the ASDDO category
The Election Commission has extended the deadline for revising electoral rolls in Karnataka, giving Booth Level Officers nine additional days to complete their house-to-house verification. The draft electoral roll will now be published on August 24, a week later than originally scheduled for August 17. The final electoral roll will also be postponed, moving from October 19 to October 27.
The claim and objection filing period has been extended from August 24 to September 23, with the notice phase and disposal of claims now running until October 22. This extension is due to a high number of electors being placed in the ASDDO category, with 48,39,933 electors in Bengaluru, comprising about 46.5% of the 10.4 million electors.
BBMP South has the highest proportion of ASDDO electors at 50.72%. The ASDDO category includes electors who are absent, shifted, dead, duplicate, or others. Political parties have been provided with the ASDDO list for verification by the BOs. The digitization of enumeration forms is more advanced in Karnataka compared to Bengaluru, with 80.18% of electors' forms digitized statewide.
The election office has received applications for additions (3,83,345), deletions (3,328), corrections (31,275), and corrections in NRI voter entries (8,25,064).
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