Booth-level officers (BLOs) are likely to undertake a second round of re-verification of nearly 4.7 million names deleted from the draft electoral roll during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), officials aware of the matter said on Friday, a day after the Election Commission of India (ECI) extended the deadlines for the exercise in Delhi.
“The re-verification of voters was nearly completed, but now, since the dates have been extended, we are planning to carry out a second round of the exercise.
This will be done to ensure that no eligible elector misses out,” an official aware of the matter said.
The election office is also likely to organise special camps to give electors another opportunity to get their names included in the roll. This means that 14,947 BLOs, many of them government school teachers who have been engaged in the SIR exercise since June 30, may once again have to visit households. Around 3.1 million of the 3.3 million cases in which voters were issued notices over non-mapping with the 2002 electoral roll or logical discrepancies have been resolved so far, officials said.
