Bengaluru Voter Rolls Show Errors After SIR Revision
Reports say electoral rolls in Bengaluru have many errors after the SIR exercise. In some polling stations, long runs of entries have names and relatives' details replaced by jumbled letters and symbols. Several entries are now hard to recognise.
Context
Context: SIR, or Special Intensive Revision, is a clean-up of voter lists run by the Election Commission of India. The electoral roll lists people who are eligible to vote, so errors can affect whether a voter is easily identified at the polling booth.
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