Close to 3,000 people, most of them dead, have been found ineligible to be included in the final voters’ list in Ernakulam district with the hearing for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter rolls entering its final phase.
The hearing process has almost been completed in the district even as six days remain to complete the process as per official deadline. As of Sunday, 2,994 people from all the 14 Assembly constituencies in the district have been found ineligible to be included in the final rolls, as per official figures. Hearing remains to be completed for only less than 700 voters, officials said.
They include people who died during the enumeration phase, those who have been found shifted to other constituencies and voters who have relinquished Indian citizenship. A split of the data was yet to emerge. At least 154 voters in the district have been found acquired citizenship of other countries, according to officials involved in the hearing exercise.
Thripunithura Assembly constituency has the most number of voters found ineligible with 624 set to be out of the rolls. It is followed by Kalamassery (291) and Piravom (275). Kunnathunad has the least number of ineligible voters – 71.
