Maharashtra's election authorities have directed electoral registration officers (EROs) to urgently publish the constituency-wise lists of voters who have pending notices under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll. As of Saturday, the lists had been made available for only 39 of the state's 288 assembly constituencies, and officials have set October 26 as the deadline for full compliance, according to the Chief Electoral Officer's office.

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The revision, based on the draft roll published on August 31, flagged roughly 1.22 crore voters — yaani about one in every eight voters in Maharashtra — for logical discrepancies or for being unmapped against earlier rolls. An Election Commission official has said only about 12 lakh of them have so far filed Form 6 or submitted documents, and that voters who received notices can submit documents to their booth level officers by November 10, with camps also being organised.

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The upload backlog is uneven. In Pune district, only the Shivajinagar constituency's list had been published, containing a single entry, while in Mumbai City and Mumbai Suburban only a handful of constituencies — including Malabar Hill, Byculla, Dharavi, Dahisar and Vandre West — had made their data public. EROs have been told to download the data from the Election Commission's ECINET platform, compile it into PDFs for each constituency and upload it to district election officers' websites.

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Officials have clarified that appearing on a pending-notice list does not mean a voter has been removed from the roll — it means the registration is under review. The window for claims and objections on the draft roll closes on October 26, disposal of notices runs until November 10, and the final electoral rolls are scheduled for publication on November 16.

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The SIR exercise remains contested: petitions before the Supreme Court allege large-scale wrongful deletions in Maharashtra. Those are the petitioners' allegations; the Election Commission's response is awaited, and the court has said such matters must be examined state by state.

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