Rajiv Chopra (name changed), a resident of Vaishali Colony in North West Delhi’s Pitampura, was making last-minute preparations for a trip abroad when a neighbour called to inform him that his children were on the Election Commission’s logical discrepancy list that was being circulated in his society.
The logical discrepancy category first surfaced during the SIR in West Bengal when approximately 1.36 crore voters received notices. In Delhi, where SIR is being done currently, 19.33 lakh electors have received discrepancy notices while 20.35 lakh have received the notices in Karnataka. One month before the completion of the SIR in West Bengal, the EC in January 2026 launched the ECINET, and ERONet was incorporated under this wider umbrella along with 40 other applications and portals used for election-related work.
Thus, the actual parameters or methodology used to assign someone to this category were not publicly documented. Another problem is with the ERONet software itself, which two Election Commissioners have flagged for having become increasingly centralised. “The software consists of an opaque algorithm which has been used to delete voters through a centralised system in Delhi (bypassing EROs).
The problem in this is that “logical discrepancies” has never been clearly defined in any official communication — neither in the Election Commission’s notice in May 2026 nor in the original SIR order from June 2025. They have said that Electoral Registration Officers have complained that they were unable to access the platform from their end in many cases. The poll body had said that this was aimed at making the process more efficient. A software used by a public authority is being kept secret for commercial interests,” he said.
