City’s homeless fear deletion from electoral roll over lack of papers; BLOs cite hardships
Homeless voters in Delhi are at risk of being removed from electoral rolls due to difficulties in verifying their addresses and lack of formal documentation. Booth Level Officers report challenges in locating these individuals during the ongoing door-to-door enumeration drive.
With over 97% of Delhi’s voters having received enumeration forms under the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, Booth Level Officers (BLOs) say homeless voters are the hardest to verify, with many lacking documents, family records and fixed addresses required to complete the exercise. This has left the homeless worried that their names could be deleted from the electoral roll.
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