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Mizoram Launches Month-Long Drive to Verify and Update Electoral Rolls
- •Mizoram has initiated a month-long special drive to verify and update electoral rolls, following the completion of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR).
- •The drive, part of the continuous enrolment and updation process, will continue throughout October.
- •Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) and Booth Level Officers (BLOs) will compare newly published SIR electoral rolls with pre-SIR rolls.
- •BLOs will personally verify cases where names were deleted from revised rolls and record reasons for deletions.
- •The election department received 3,840 post-SIR appeals, with Lawngtlai district accounting for 1,679; 78,442 names were removed during the SIR exercise.
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Mizoram launched a month-long special drive throughout October to verify and update electoral rolls following the completion of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR). Electoral Registration Officers and Booth Level Officers are comparing newly published SIR rolls with pre-SIR rolls and personally verifying any deleted names.
The election department in Mizoram has received a total of 3,840 post-SIR appeals from voters. Among all the districts, Lawngtlai district accounted for the highest number of these appeals, with 1,679 submissions.
A total of 78,442 names were removed from Mizoram's electoral rolls during the SIR exercise, which ran from May 20 to June 28 up until the final rolls were published on September 7. This included uncollected enumeration forms prior to the draft rolls and additional removals leading up to the final publication.
