3 min learnBengaluruUp to date: Aug 4, 2026 08:25 PM IST
Because the enumeration section of the Election Fee of India’s Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Karnataka nears completion, one-fifth of voters within the state have been categorized below the ASDDO (absent, shifted, lifeless, duplicate, and others) class.
A coalition of civil society teams below the banner of “My Vote, My Proper” has petitioned Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) V Anbukkumar urging him to publish the ASDDO record on the official web site and lengthen the enumeration section until September 30.
In a letter to the CEO, “My Vote, My Proper”—a coalition of 40 civil society organisations—famous that not one of the voters has obtained “any written acknowledgement via SMS or a discover to point that their title has been marked as ASDDO. They aren’t even conscious if their title will seem within the draft rolls, the ASDDO record or neither.”
“An abnormal particular person has no method of checking the standing of their EF (enumeration kinds). The duty of voter roll revision and sustaining pure electoral rolls lies with the ECI, and should not be a voter’s burden to make sure that they don’t seem to be wrongfully excluded!” it stated.
The CEO’s workplace stated in a launch on Monday that 20.04 per cent, or one-fifth, of voters mapped on the idea of the 2002 electoral rolls for the SIR—1.11 crore of the 5.54 crore names—had been categorised as ASDDO. Virtually half that quantity (round 50 lakh) was from 4 electoral districts of the Bengaluru City district. Knowledge confirmed that 99.84 per cent of the enumeration kinds had been digitised, with solely 87,254 kinds remaining.
The 20.04 per cent determine is the very best for ASDDO within the nation. Beforehand, 19.09 per cent of the voters had been categorized below the class throughout the SIR in Uttar Pradesh, and the ultimate roll revealed in April eliminated 13.24 per cent of the names. In Gujarat, 14.45 per cent of the mapped voters fell below the class, and 13.4 per cent of the names had been eliminated.
The coalition demanded the publication of the ASDDO record on the CEO’s web site with booth-wise voter particulars, together with the reason why they had been categorized as such.
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It additionally complained that a number of booth-level officers refused to distribute enumeration kinds, leading to a number of voters being categorized as having “shifted” from their constituencies.
“With a view to accommodate time to rectify the errors performed by ECI officers by wrongly marking individuals as ASDDO, and to provide ample time for individuals to fill their kinds appropriately and full their mapping, the enumeration section have to be prolonged until thirtieth September,” it added.
Anbukkumar earlier maintained that every one ASDDO entries had been accompanied by a mahazar carried out within the presence of booth-level brokers of political events.
