Delhi's election authorities have set in motion a verification process covering roughly 47.56 lakh names dropped from the draft electoral rolls, after objections were raised that voters who remain at their registered addresses were nonetheless absent from the list released on 31 August. Chief Electoral Officer Ashok Kumar outlined the purpose of the ongoing exercise as ensuring every qualifying voter appears on the final electoral rolls, due for release on 4 December.

Voter-roll checks of this kind fall within a broader programme known as the Special Intensive Revision, a structured exercise aimed at updating electoral registration records. Around 47.56 lakh names were dropped from Delhi's draft electoral rolls following the enumeration phase of that programme, out of a total registered electorate of 1.45 crore. Voter records falling into four distinct groups — absent, shifted, deceased, or duplicate — were logged together under the ASDD classification.

Ground-level electoral officers carrying the BLO designation have been tasked with two parallel duties: confirming the status of voters dropped from rolls following the enumeration stage, and addressing formal notices sent to individuals whose names appeared in the draft lists but whose recorded particulars contained inconsistencies. Booth-level officers have been instructed to carry out fresh verification of voters whose names were absent from the draft rolls released following the enumeration phase, Kumar told reporters.

Booth Level Officers are conducting door-to-door visits across all 70 Assembly constituencies in Delhi to address notices raised against voters whose registration details contained discrepancies, with Kumar stating that every legitimate voter's name would be retained in the final electoral rolls set for publication on 4 December. As part of those same field visits, officers are also reviewing files belonging to individuals whose names did not appear on the preliminary voter rolls.

Voters whose names are absent from the draft rolls have the option of filing Form 6 to request inclusion in the final electoral list, Kumar noted. Booth-level officers received explicit guidance that minor inaccuracies in personal data should not, on their own, serve as grounds for rejecting a case.

When the draft rolls were made public on 31 August, they listed a total of 97.53 lakh registered voters. Among that group, roughly 33.12 lakh people had formal notices issued against them — either because inconsistencies were found in their personal data, or because their records could not be matched to the 2002 SIR rolls. Voters received the alerts when their personal information contained inaccuracies, when their records failed to match any entry in the system, or when no link could be established between their names and the 2002 SIR electoral rolls.

Of the 33.12 lakh notices flagged for logical discrepancies or mapping issues, roughly 25 lakh have since been cleared, according to Kumar. Kumar set a deadline of 30 October for clearing the backlog of the remaining pending notice cases. That set of notices was distinct from the removal of 47.56 lakh voters that had taken place at the enumeration stage.