The State election authority, Chief Electoral Officer’s office, will launch special summary revision (SSR) of electoral rolls on Thursday.
The SSR with January 1 next as qualifying date is aimed at improving the health of electoral rolls in campaign mode. The close-to-five-month activity includes removal of demographically similar entries and logical errors from the existing rolls and checking photo quality. The Elector Verification Programme would be taken up with the help of Systematic Voter Education and Electoral Participation and eligible voters could come forward to authenticate the details providing the documents approved by the Election Commission.
People could verify their details through voter helpline, mobile app, National Voters’ Service Portal, by visiting the common service centres in their vicinity or by submitting hard copies of filled-in forms to the Electoral Registration Officer through their booth-level officers. Information of un-enrolled citizens, dead or shifted electors would be collected through crowd sourcing till August 31.
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This would be followed by house-to-house verification during September wherein booth level officers would conduct door-to-door verification of details either submitted by electors or those collected through crowd sourcing.
The process would include standardisation of addresses, capturing of GIS location of the respective polling stations, exploration of alternative locations for polling stations and updation of age-cohort wise projected population details.