BENGALURU: Amid concerns from voters unable to find their own or their parents’ details in the 2002 electoral roll, Karnataka Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Anbukkumar has advised them to fill the enumeration form with available details, sign it and submit it to booth level officer (BLO).Election Commission officials said that submitting a signed enumeration form is the surest way to ensure inclusion in the draft electoral rolls, scheduled to be published on Aug 5.The draft rolls will remain open for verification if discrepancies have been noticed, officials said.The poll panel has completed more than 90% voter mapping through a tabletop exercise linking voters listed in the 2002 electoral roll with family members who later became eligible to vote.Officials expect this exercise to minimise logical inconsistencies during verification process.Online submission of forms facing Aadhaar-voter ID detail mismatchAfter the draft rolls are published on Aug 5, the electoral registration officer (ERO) will issue a written notice to voters whose 2002 details are unavailable or do not match official records. They will be asked to furnish supporting documents listed on the reverse of the enumeration form. The ERO will examine the documents and decide each case on its merits, he said.As of Friday, 89% of the state’s 5.5 crore enumeration forms had been dis tributed. More than 51% of the 59,050 polling booths achieved 100% distribution. However, only 19.3% of the distributed forms have been filled and digitised, while online submissions account for just 0.3%, largely due to mismatches between Aadhaar and voter ID details.Meanwhile, ECI has flagged over 3.3 lakh voters as absent/untraceable, shifted, dead, duplicate or belonging to the “other” category. These cases will be shared with political parties through booth level agents (BLA-2s) for verification.
