Daijiworld Media Network - Jaipur
Jaipur, Oct 28: Over 70.5% of Rajasthan’s registered voters will not be required to submit any verification documents during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls, according to State Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Naveen Mahajan.
Mahajan said the Election Department has simplified the verification process by conducting advance voter mapping, which identified and validated a majority of voter records before the SIR officially began.
“More than 70 per cent of voters will not need to provide documents from the day SIR is announced. Once BLOs begin door-to-door verification, this number could cross 80 per cent,” Mahajan said.
As of October 27, Rajasthan has 5.48 crore registered voters, and 70.55 per cent of them have been verified through previous SIR records. The mapping rate is significantly higher among voters aged above 40 (79.32%) than those below 40 (22.22%).
Rajasthan currently leads 12 states conducting SIR, with a 49.37% voter mapping rate on the Election Commission’s national database — well ahead of Tamil Nadu (21.62%), Madhya Pradesh (20.09%), and Uttar Pradesh (13.41%).
BLOs (Booth Level Officers) will conduct door-to-door verification and make up to three visits per household to collect the Enumeration Form (EF). If no one is available, they will leave the form and a notice at the residence.
The draft SIR voter list will be published on December 9, with names of deceased voters, duplicates, and those who have moved permanently deleted. The list of deleted names will also be published on the Election Department’s website.
Mahajan said voters who appeared in the previous SIR records will not need to provide any new documents, but those listed under parents’ or grandparents’ names must submit identity proof.
He cautioned that duplicate voter entries are a punishable offence, carrying up to one year of imprisonment, and added that the new machine-readable system makes it easier to detect such cases across states.
Following the revision, Rajasthan will have an average of 890 voters per booth, with 8,819 new polling stations to be added, bringing the total to 61,309 booths.
Special steps are also being taken to include nomadic (Ghumantu) families, with BLOs and volunteers ensuring their registration through direct outreach.