Karnataka’s ongoing special intensive revision of electoral rolls has raised a governance question about timing and procedure. Some voters submitting online enumeration forms are already seeing pop-up warnings about possible anomalies even before the draft roll is published.
The specific concern reported from Karnataka is that a person has been linked as a child to someone who is also claimed as a parent by six others, which suggests a possible incorrect match in the system. The Chief Electoral Officer had not clarified whether such logical discrepancy flags were meant to apply at the enumeration stage, and he said he was not aware of the issue when asked.
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