The final voter lists roll for Goa, prepared as part of the special intensive revision of electoral rolls, will now be published on February 21 after the Election Commission extended its deadline by one week.
The draft rolls for the state were published on December 16. More than one lakh names were deleted after being marked dead, absent or having shifted.
The state also has more than 1.8 lakh “unmapped” voters. These are persons whose names appear on the draft voter list but were not found on the 2002 rolls, when the last special intensive revision was held. They will have to attend hearings with relevant documents to retain their name on the final voter list.
Besides Goa, the special intensive revision is underway in 11 states and Union Territories.
In Bihar, where the revision was completed ahead of the Assembly polls in November, at least 47 lakh voters were excluded from the final electoral roll published on September 30.
Concerns had been raised after the announcement in Bihar that the exercise could remove eligible voters from the roll.
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