The Election Commission on Thursday announced the annual Special Summary Revision of electoral rolls in Arunachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, and Daman and Diu, Mizoram, Odisha and Sikkim.
Deletion applications must undergo field verification in cases involving repeated or multiple entries. Electoral registration officers must personally cross-check deletions exceeding two per cent of electors at a polling station or where the same objector files more than five objections. The poll roll revision exercise seeks to enrol eligible voters, particularly young and first-time electors, and facilitate advance applications from those who will become eligible on April 1, July 1 and October 1, 2027. The draft electoral rolls will be published on November 30. Final publication of electoral rolls will take place on January 21, 2027. On October 15, the poll authority had announced SSR in 17 states, including poll-bound Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Goa and Punjab.
No application for enrolment can be rejected, nor can an existing entry be deleted, for failure to provide Aadhaar. The Commission has directed chief secretaries of the respective states and UTs to ensure adequate manpower and resources for the exercise. Furnishing Aadhaar details in Forms 6 and 8 will remain voluntary.
In a first, the election body had then decided to share rolls with parties in “readable PDF format” instead of image files.
