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Bihar SIR: ECI receives documents of 98.2% electors with 8 more days remaining till the deadline

OpIndia Staff -
Over 3 lakh new voters, who have attained the age of 18 or above are going to be added to the voter list in the state at the end of the SIR.
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Bihar SIR: Supreme Court directs the Election Commission to publish list of names of deleted from electoral rolls along with reasons for exclusion

OpIndia Staff -
The Supreme Court said that the publication of the list of names excluded from the electoral rolls will enhance the confidence of the voters in the Commission.
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Rahul Gandhi cited voters with house number 0 as proof of “vote theft”, now several real voters with house number 0 on their voter...

OpIndia Staff -
The Election Commission often assigns 'House Number 0' or 'notional addresses' to include voters without well-defined or permanent residential addresses, such as homeless people.
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‘Aadhaar not proof of citizenship, SIR in Bihar to continue’: SC affirms EC’s power to revise voter rolls, rejects mass disenfranchisement claim

OpIndia Staff -
The Court did not accept the petitioners' claim that the SIR in Bihar would result in disenfranchisement of lakhs of voters, as they are poor and do not have the necessary documents.
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Why is Mamata Banerjee scared of SIR in Bengal, and vocal against action on illegal immigrants? Research paper says there may be 1 crore+...

Shraddha Pandey -
The research emphasises that its final findings are a lower-bound estimate and the actual inflation may be significantly higher.
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West Bengal Election Commission spots fake voter entries during sample checking, orders probe

OpIndia Staff -
Two Electoral Registration Officers have admitted that they accepted a considerable number of fake voter application forms.
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EC’s big clean-up in Bihar: 35 lakh fake, dead, and duplicate voters removed in the ongoing SIR drive, 6.6 crore forms collected

OpIndia Staff -
The Election Commission been proactive in ensuring that no voter is left out. Special camps have been set up in 5,683 wards of 261 urban local bodies (ULB) of Bihar.
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Kapil Sibal’s bizzare arguments to allow illegals in the country, claims individuals not obligated to prove citizenship, but the government has to prove they...

OpIndia Staff -
Kapil Sibal claimed that government has to prove that a person is illegal is immigrant, and the person does not have to proof citizenship, a wrong claim
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Aadhaar is not a proof of citizenship, EC tells the Supreme Court during hearing of petitions challenging electoral roll revision in Bihar

Aditi -
The Supreme Court allowed the ECI to continue the SIR in Bihar, but asked to consider Aadhaar, voter ID cards, and ration cards as valid documents during the verification drive.
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Supreme Court accepts fresh petitions against Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar

ANI -
The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear two more pleas challenging the Election Commission of India's move to conduct a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar.
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