A booth-level officer involved in the process of digitalising the details given in the enumeration form of a voter in Mangaluru.
| Photo Credit: H.S. Manjunath
The draft electoral rolls released after the completion of the enumeration phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Karnataka on Monday (August 24, 2026) has revealed alarming levels of deletions, unprecedented when compared with other major States that saw high deletions during the enumeration phase.
With the deletion of 1.08 crore names from the rolls, the State, with 224 Assembly Constituencies (ACs), saw its electoral rolls shrinking by 19.5% from 5.54 crore to 4.46 crore — which is the removal of roughly one in every five voters who were there on the rolls before the SIR.
Published – August 26, 2026 01:21 pm IST
