Special Intensive Revision: Efforts on track down untraceable’ voters
Nov 22, 2025
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Key Points
- Digitisation of enumeration forms has begun under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
- 1,19,315 voters were found ‘untraceable’ during the enumeration phase.
- The list of untraceable voters includes 8,087 listed as ‘untraceable/absent,’ 37,835 voters listed as ‘permanently shifted,’ 66,740 ‘dead,’ 6032 as ‘already enrolled’ and 621 in the ‘others’ category.
- Chief Electoral Officer (Kerala) is Rathan U. Kelkar.
- The deadline for completing the digitisation of forms is December 4.
- 26,46,414 enumeration forms have been digitized up to 10 a.m. on Saturday, constituting 9.50% of the total forms distributed in Kerala.
- 47,584 voters have used the online option to submit their data for SIR.
- 99.5% of the enumeration forms have been distributed.