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Mokkaraj, Panjavarnam and Bakkiyam were among those marked as ‘deceased’

Sweeping deletions show ECI failed to check anomalies in SIR draft rolls in Tamil Nadu

21 Jan 2026

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Anna Nagar, which dropped 1,18,287 (42.2% of its electorate) voters in the roll, had just one person marked as absent, but 1,08,828 (92%) marked as shifted.

Absent/Shifted arbitrarily used to drop voters

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20 Jan 2026

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TNIE found at least 728 groups of consecutively-appearing duplicates that have been deleted for different reasons.

Tamil Nadu SIR: Duplicates deleted for all the wrong reasons

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19 Jan 2026

4 min read

Booth Level Officers verifying residents' names with the draft electoral roll in Tamil Nadu.

Draft electoral rolls may have left out TN voters en masse

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18 Jan 2026

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Booth Level Agents (BLA-2) of political parties, who are best placed to identify dropped voters, are struggling to help electors due to the rationalisation.

Booth rationalisation lands a hard blow on TN voters

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18 Jan 2026

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Despite booth changes during SSR 2024 and SIR 2025, TNIE identified 38,338 booths with unchanged polling areas, enabling apples-to-apples comparison.

SIR: The numbers are not adding up in Tamil Nadu

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18 Jan 2026

4 min read

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