Initially, 1,101,505 duplicate voters were flagged in the ward-wise voter list. To verify these entries, municipal staff had begun door-to-door visits, but the process had to be temporarily halted due to technical issues.
A sample check was recently conducted in Ward A, where only 2 out of 400 verified names were actually duplicates. Based on this, officials expect the number of duplicate voters to drop significantly possibly by 1.1 million, as many cases appear to be voters who share the same names.
Duplicate entries are being checked division-wise using voter photographs.
Each division has 10 trained operators along with computer systems for this purpose.
By December 10, voters with identical names in the duplicate list will be filtered out.
Afterward, municipal staff will resume field visits and obtain written applications from voters confirming that they vote only within a single ward.
Those who do not submit the application during field visits will be required to do so on polling day.
The list of polling stations will be published on December 15.
Officials must inspect 20% of locations and review facilities at the remaining stations.
The number of polling stations will remain the same as during the Assembly elections.
Between November 20 and December 3, the BMC received 7,452 objections and suggestions regarding the draft voter list.
Highest submissions:
M East Ward: 1,820
N Ward: 1,587
L Ward: 963
Many objections from political parties involved claims that certain voters were deceased. To verify this:
Assistant Commissioners will contact the families of the concerned voters.
Families must submit a death certificate by December 12 to the central election department.
Only then will the deceased voter’s name be removed.
If any building, or voter is found listed in the wrong ward, those errors will be corrected on a priority basis.
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