The KPCC said it had received complaints from different parts of Karnataka about enumeration forms not being received, collected or properly accounted for, apart from eligible voters being shown as unmapped with the previous SIR.
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The Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) has written to the Karnataka Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) seeking an immediate State-wide review of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, flagging discrepancies in enumeration, voter mapping and the arbitrary usage of the classification of voters as shifted or deceased.
The representation flagged the case of Assembly Constituency No. 153 (Yeswanthpur), Part No. 512, where enumeration forms were distributed to all 1,016 voters, but only 654 forms were received and uploaded, while four forms were officially recorded as not submitted.
The remaining entries include 339 voters marked as permanently shifted, 19 as deceased and 265 as unmapped with the previous SIR. The KPCC said these figures required detailed voter-wise verification, as only 389 voters were being treated as valid, while the rest had either been removed or served notices.
Pointing out that the polling-part data highlighted the need to examine whether similar discrepancies had occurred elsewhere in the State, the KPCC questioned the notices issued to the 265 voters shown as unmapped. It has also sought polling-part-wise statistical reports across the State, special verification of unmapped voters, and verification of all entries classified as shifted or deceased.
The KPCC said it had received complaints from different parts of Karnataka about enumeration forms not being received, collected or properly accounted for, apart from eligible voters being shown as unmapped with the previous SIR.
It said voters and their representatives were facing difficulties in obtaining information about the status of individual entries, and that Booth Level Officers (BLOs), supervisors and other officials were not always responding adequately to queries, leaving the public in the dark.
It has further sought a time-bound action-taken report from the CEO, stating that eligible voters should not be excluded due to errors in enumeration, mapping or communication.
Published – September 17, 2026 08:50 pm IST
