97 Lakh Names Deleted From Tamil Nadu Voter List After SIR Phase 1
Over 97 lakh voters have been removed from Tamil Nadu's voter list after the contentious Special Intensive Revision exercise, per data released by the Election Commission Friday. There were 6.41 lakh crore voters on the list before the exercise. And now only 5.43 lakh crore will be allowed to vote in next year's Assembly election.
The deleted entries include nearly 27 lakh names listed as 'dead' and around 66 lakh who had moved out of the state. Around 3.4 lakh names were found to have been double-registered.
