‘Husband Husband’ to ‘????’ and ‘XXX’: After SIR, Bengaluru’s electoral rolls riddled with errors

Note to Desk: If you wish to cut anything from this story, please check with the reporter first. Bengaluru From names appearing as “XXX” or “??????K” to missing relatives’ names and entries containing single letters, email IDs or even “...”, entries in Bengaluru’s final electoral rolls are riddled with errors. The Hindu found discrepancies in at least 1,000 entries here alone. In some polling parts, voters listed one after another (consecutive serial numbers) have had their names and their relatives’ names replaced by jumbled letters, making it impossible to identify them from the entries in the voter rolls. Diacritical entries In Dasarahalli Assembly constituency, which has 425 electors, an unusually large number of consecutive entries in polling part No. 324 carry garbled names.