New Delhi: If your name vanished from the voter list during the special intensive revision, Thursday is the day the counter reopens.
Draft electoral rolls under the Election Commission's Special Summary Revision were to be published in 13 states and three Union Territories on 12 November, with 1 January 2027 as the qualifying date. The states are Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand and West Bengal. The Union Territories are Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep and Puducherry.
Uttar Pradesh is the exception. Chief electoral officer Navdeep Rinwa said the state's draft roll will now be published on 17 November, with claims and objections running from 17 November to 16 December. The commission has kept 28 December as the last date for disposing of claims in every state, which leaves Uttar Pradesh's staff a shorter window.
For everyone else the clock is: claims and objections from 12 November to 11 December, disposal by 28 December, final publication on 4 January 2027.
The revision is being held under Section 21 of the Representation of the People Act, 1950. Applicants use Form 6 to get a name included, Form 6A for overseas electors, Form 7 to object to an entry or seek a deletion, and Form 8 for corrections, shifting or a new card. Applications can be filed on the Voter Service Portal at voters.eci.gov.in or through the ECINET app.
Tamil Nadu enters this round with a specific grievance. The special intensive revision there removed 97 lakh names, and the commission has said those voters can file Form 6 until 11 December to get back on the roll.
The commission has written two safeguards into the exercise. Where deletions at a polling station exceed 2 per cent of its electors, the electoral registration officer must personally cross-verify each case. And where one person is the objector in more than five cases, those too must be cross-verified. Caps on how many Form 7 objections a single elector may file were issued on 9 October.
Aadhaar can be given voluntarily on Form 6 and Form 8, and no application can be refused for want of it.