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Delhi audit finds 100 voters wrongly marked absent
The Hindu·
A seven-day audit of 258 Okhla households found at least 100 voters from booths 61 and 65 wrongly listed absent, shifted, dead or duplicate during Delhi's special intensive revision. More than 150 voters registered for an October 18 Jan Sunwai in Batla House. Okhla's draft roll lists over 1.85 lakh voters, with more than 67,000 on a notice list.
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What It Means For You
- Residents wrongly marked absent cannot vote until election officials restore names after hearings and appeals.
- Families in G and K blocks may need documents from the panel of advocates and activists who heard cases.
- Neighbouring booths joined the hearing after announcements, widening the pool of claims beyond two booths.
What's Happening
- Civil society groups including MKSS and Voter Adhikar Manch organised the public hearing on Sunday.
- Retired professor Faiyaz Ahmed, 74, was marked untraceable despite decades at the same Jamia address.
- Okhla recorded the second highest deletion rate in the draft roll published after SIR.
What the Okhla audit found
- The special intensive revision aims to update Delhi's electoral rolls before elections.
- Nearly 1.6 lakh names in Okhla appeared on the ASDD list in the August 31 publication.
- Advocates Nayantara Roy and Sumita Hazarika sat on the hearing panel.
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