Auto-generated Form 7 applications were generated for around 95,000 voters marked “ineligible” for the final electoral roll in Uttarakhand after they failed their logical discrepancy hearings or didn’t show up, the chief electoral officer said on Thursday.
The SIR draft roll of Uttarakhand was released on July 14, dropping over 826,000 people, or more than 10% from the pre-SIR roll. The draft roll of 7.9 million people also flagged 1.9 million people for logical discrepancies. Chief election officer (CEO) BVRC Purshottam said all of the 95,000 voters had logical discrepancy cases. Last month, the Uttarakhand Congress raised concerns over the ongoing SIR of electoral rolls, alleging large-scale misuse of Form 7 to seek deletion of voters, particularly in constituencies considered the party’s strongholds.
These people appeared for hearings before election authorities with their papers. A logical discrepancy is a software-generated flag and does not, by itself, establish ineligibility.
“When such voters fail to provide the required documents during the hearing or they could not attend the hearing personally or through their family members, such cases, the concerned electoral registration officer (ERO) or assistant electoral registration officer (AERO) marks them as ‘ineligible’ through ECI -Net, following which Form 7 is automatically generated by the system and marked for deletion,” he said. Officials have previously said logical discrepancy notices are auto-generated by the Election Commission software, ERONET , for mismatches in names, difference in the age of siblings or between parents and their children, and for parents having more than six children.
