The names of more than one crore persons were removed from the draft voter list of Karnataka published on Monday as part of the special intensive revision of electoral rolls, Moneycontrol reported.The state had 4.4 crore voters in the draft roll as compared to the 5.5 crore before the exercise began in June. The names not included in the draft roll account for 19.4% of the state’s electorate.While 65.4 lakh voters have been marked as permanently shifted, 12.3 lakh had died, 15.1 lakh were absent and 7 lakh names were duplicate entries. More than 3.8 lakh were placed under the “other” category. It was unclear what the other category was.The highest deletions were recorded in Bengaluru’s urban districts.Notices will be sent to 43 lakh persons whose enumeration forms either had anomalies or those who had not been mapped, Moneycontrol quoted the Chief Electoral Officer V Anbukumar as saying.The claims and objections by voters against their removal from the draft list can be filed between August 24 and September 23. The appeals will be heard by October 22, before the final electoral roll is published on October 27.Karnataka is among the 16 states where the voter roll revision is being carried out in the third phase of SIR.More than 16% of the voters in Haryana and 10.8% in Andhra Pradesh were removed from the draft lists published on July 31 as part of the exercise. In 2025, the first phase of the exercise was conducted in Bihar. It was extended to 12 states and Union Territories in the second phase in late 2025 and the first half of 2026.Since it began, concerns have been raised that the revision could eliminate genuine voters from the rolls and even shape electoral outcomes, as Scroll has reported.In May, the Supreme Court upheld the legality of the revision, but said that the exercise does not mean that the Election Commission can decide on whether the person is an Indian citizen.Edited by Tanya Shrivastava.Also read: Scroll’s SIR experience is a microcosm of what urban India is facing