SIR: Civil society groups to conduct social audit in Kodagu on September 29 over deletions

Civil society groups including Eddelu Karnataka are set to conduct a social audit of the draft electoral roll in Kodagu on September 29. The audit will involve reading out the draft roll and the Absent, Shifted, Duplicate, Dead, and Others (ASDDO) list to compare entries with the pre-SIR polling-station-wise electoral roll. The groups aim to identify cases of wrong deletion under the ASDDO list and to find out how many people living in the area did not receive enumeration forms.

The groups have been conducting training and pilot surveys in H.D. Kote taluk before the SIR, verifying names of over 5,000 voters with household heads or members. Kodagu has recorded the highest mapping rate before the SIR began, yet more than 8% of the electorate was marked under the ASDDO categories and subsequently deleted.

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