More than 22 lakh names were removed from the voter lists of four states – Odisha, Manipur, Mizoram and Sikkim – as the Election Commission on Sunday published draft electoral rolls as part of the special intensive revision exercise, the Deccan Herald reported.

The names accounted for 6.1% of the voters in the states’ earlier electoral rolls.

The four states were part of the third phase of the special intensive revision exercise, which is taking place in 16 states and three Union Territories.

In Odisha, the names of more than 20 lakh people were deleted from the electoral rolls after the enumeration phase of the special intensive revision, PTI reported. Of these, 8.3 lakh have died, 10 lakh have shifted or were absent during the exercise and 1.5 lakh persons were found to be registered in multiple places, the state’s Chief Electoral Officer RS Gopalan said.

Further, about 14,000 voters did not return their enumeration forms to booth-level officers, Gopalan was quoted as saying by PTI.

“The voters, whose names were not there in the draft electoral roll, can submit their claim or objection either through the BLO [booth-level officers] or through the ECINET mobile app or voters.eci.gov.in,” the chief electoral officer said at a press conference.

Odisha had 3.3 crore voters when the electoral list was frozen on May 20....

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