Bengaluru: Chief Electoral Officer Sanjeev Kumar has said that the election officials have received 17.45 lakh applications for inclusion, deletion and modification during the special summary revision of electoral rolls.
“A total of 7.47 lakh voters were deleted from the list. This includes 4.7 lakh voters who shifted to other places, 80000 repeated names and 1.95 lakh voters due to death,” Sanjeev Kumar said.
As election officials have begun clearing the rolls of duplication and other errors, the total number of electors in Karnataka has gone down by nearly 40000.
More than 7 lakh young voters entered the electoral rolls in the state which is being finalised for the 2019 polls though the number is much below the Election Commission’s target of 15 lakh.
Kumar clarified that no names were dropped from the electoral rolls on account of their migrant status though 45000 names were deleted after verification found that they were not residents of the given address.
