Electoral Rolls

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.

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.

The research emphasises that its final findings are a lower-bound estimate and the actual inflation may be significantly higher.

Two Electoral Registration Officers have admitted that they accepted a considerable number of fake voter application forms.

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.

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

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.

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.

Sources within the Election Commission of India (ECI) have clarified that the Indian National Congress' (INC) ongoing demand for machine-readable, digital copies of electoral rolls is "not legally tenable" and has already been conclusively settled by the Supreme Court.

The TMC's campaign on the alleged "ghost voters" from Punjab, Haryana and Gujarat has already drawn flak from the BJP.