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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy51qg00dezo

Political turmoil in Indian border state as nine million lose voting rights
Muhammad Daud Ali, a former Indian army technician, recently discovered that he was no longer a voter in his home state of West Bengal.

His name – and those of his three children – had been struck off the electoral rolls despite valid documents, including his passport and service records. Only his wife remained on the list.

Ali, 65, and his children are among nine million voters – about 12% of West Bengal’s 76 million electorate – who have been removed from the 2026 rolls as part of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise. Voting to elect a new state government will take place later this month in this eastern Indian state.

Of these nine million, more than six million names were struck off as absentee or deceased voters, while the fate of another 2.7 million – including families like Ali’s – remains undecided and will be determined by tribunals.

Thirteen states and federally-administered territories have undergone the SIR process so far, but West Bengal is the only one where it was followed by an additional layer of special adjudication.

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These voters had submitted enumeration forms linking them to the 2002 electoral roll – widely regarded as the last “clean” list.

Yet the poll panel used a new, AI-driven process to flag what it called “logical discrepancies” in their records, treating them as doubtful voters.

Despite subsequent re-verification, people like Ali were excluded.

Thank goodness we live in a country where no government body would even consider using without checking computer controlled decisions that affect the rights of individuals!

Robocop “Dead or alive, you’re coming with me”