‘I am not dead’: Voters marked dead speak up; citizen groups flag discrepancies in Delhi’s SIR draft roll
Residents in Delhi are reporting significant errors in the electoral roll, with many living citizens incorrectly marked as 'dead' or 'permanently shifted'. Citizen groups are raising concerns over the transparency and accuracy of the Special Intensive Revision process conducted by the Delhi Chief Electoral Officer.
Why it matters
Electoral roll integrity is fundamental to democratic participation; widespread errors can disenfranchise thousands of eligible voters.
Virma, a 71-year-old resident of Malviya Nagar’s Jagdamba Camp, has been categorised as dead in the list published by Delhi Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) website containing names of those voters whose enumeration forms were marked “uncollectable” during enumeration phase of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Delhi.
Speaking to The HIndu on video, Ms. Virma said that she lives in Jagdamba Camp. “I am not dead. How can it be shown so? I am alive. I have voted in elections too. They can check.” She has questioned why she should enrol as a new voter when she has been voting for so long. “If it means I won’t be able to vote, then I must because I will vote till I am alive.”
Virma, a resident of Malviya Nagar’s Jagdamba Camp is another person marked as ‘dead’ following the first phase of the SIR in Delhi
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