SIR in Karnataka: Voters above 85 years face double checks, say BLOs
With the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) under way in Karnataka, Booth Level Officers (BLOs) say they have been instructed to “double verify” voters aged ‘85 years and above’ and place them under the “probable absent, shifted, dead/deleted or duplicate (ASDD)” category.While Chief Electoral Officer V. Anbu Kumar denied that any such instructions had been issued, multiple BLOs told The Hindu that they had been directed to flag voters above 85 for ASDD verification ‘even before any discrepancy has been established’. “Nobody whose enumeration form has been submitted should be placed under the ASDD category.
- ▪With the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) under way in Karnataka, Booth Level Officers (BLOs) say they have been instructed to “double verify” voters aged ‘85 years and above’ and place them under the “probable absent, shifted, dead/deleted
- ▪Anbu Kumar denied that any such instructions had been issued, multiple BLOs told The Hindu that they had been directed to flag voters above 85 for ASDD verification ‘even before any discrepancy has been established’.
- ▪“Nobody whose enumeration form has been submitted should be placed under the ASDD category.
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With the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) under way in Karnataka, Booth Level Officers (BLOs) say they have been instructed to “double verify” voters aged ‘85 years and above’ and place them under the “probable absent, shifted, dead/deleted or duplicate (ASDD)” category.While Chief Electoral Officer V. Anbu Kumar denied that any such instructions had been issued, multiple BLOs told The Hindu that they had been directed to flag voters above 85 for ASDD verification ‘even before any discrepancy has been established’. “Nobody whose enumeration form has been submitted should be placed under the ASDD category. But within the BLO app, there is a category called ‘Probable ASD’ where all voters above 85 are directly linked.
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