Lucknow, 30 Oct 2025

Election Commission of India ( ECI) has clarified today that electorate are not required to provide any documents during the distribution and collection of the enumeration form during the Special Intensive Revision( SIR) of electoral rolls in Uttar Pradesh.

After filling out the counting form, one copy of the self-signed form or signed by an adult relative will be given to the Booth Level Officer, and the other copy, signed by the Booth Level Officer, will be given to the voter/adult relative as a receipt.

However, all voters whose names could not be matched/linked with the voter list of the last special intensive revision will be issued a notice for hearing by the Electoral Registration Officer of the respective Assembly constituency.

These details were disclosed by UP Chief Electoral Officer ( CEO) Navdeep Rinwa here on Thursday.

BLOs will start reaching to voters in the state from November 4 and will continue till December 4 next.

CEO said during the Special Intensive Revision process, Booth Level Officers (BLOs) will contact all voters at their polling station and provide each voter with a two-copy of forms. Booth Level Officers (BLOs) will visit each voter's home at least three times to distribute and collect the counting forms.

"The counting form will contain the voter's name, EPIC number, Part Number, Serial Number, Assembly Constituency and State entries, and their photo will also be pre-printed. The voter
may also affix their latest passport-size photograph to the enumeration form," he said.

Details from the electoral roll of the last Special Intensive Revision of 2003 will also be entered by the voter in the enumeration form. In case of any difficulty in filling in the details to be entered in the enumeration form, the assistance of the Booth Level Officer may be sought.

He said the voter can check their name or that of a relative in the 2003 voter list through the Election Commission of India's portal http://voters.eci.gov.in/. In case their name is not in the 2003 voter list, if their relative's name is in the 2003 voter list, their details can also be entered on the enumeration form either by themselves or with the assistance of the Booth Level Officer.

Voters who fill out their details on the counting form and submit it to the Booth Level Officer will be included in the documented voter list.


During the hearing before the Electoral Registration Officer, the voter will be required to submit one of the following documents:
1. Any identity card/pension payment order issued to a regular employee/pensioner of any Central Government/State Government/Public Sector Undertaking. 2. Any identity card/certificate/record issued in India by the Government/Local Authorities/Banks/Post Office/LIC/Public Sector Undertaking before July 1, 1987.
3. Birth certificate issued by a competent authority. 4. Passport. 5. Matriculation/Educational Certificate issued by a recognized Board/University. 6. Permanent Residence Certificate issued by a competent State Authority. 7. Forest Rights Certificate. 8. Other Backward Class/Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe or any other caste certificate issued by a competent authority. 9. National Register of Citizens (wherever it exists). 10. Family register prepared by the State/local authorities. 11. Any land/house allotment certificate issued by the government. 12. For Aadhaar, the instructions issued by the Commission vide letter No. 23/2025-ERS/Vol. II dated September 9, 2025 (Annexure II) will apply. 13. Extract of the electoral roll of Bihar for the Special Intensive Revision with reference to July 1, 2025.

Rinwa said the draft roll of the electoral roll will be published on December 9, 2025 while the period for filing claims and objections will be from December 9, 2025 to January 8, 2026.

Any voter can file a claim/objection during the period for filing claims and objections.The first appeal filed by a voter aggrieved by the decision of the Electoral Registration Officer will be heard by the District Magistrate and the second appeal against the decision of the District Magistrate will be heard by the Chief Electoral Officer of the State.

The final publication of the electoral roll will be done on February 7, 2026.

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The Supreme Court has asked the Election Commission of India (ECI) to verify allegations made by advocate Prashant Bhushan that four EVMs were recording one extra vote for BJP during a mock poll held in Kasaragod, Kerala.

The directive was issued by a bench comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta while considering a report regarding the EVM issue during the hearing of the pleas seeking complete cross-verification of votes cast through EVMs with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT), reported Live Law.

The SC, in its oral directive, said the electoral process has to have a sanctity. "Let nobody have apprehension that something which is expected is not being done," the bench told ECI.

Bhushan cited a report that appeared in Manorama Online about the complaints raised during mock polls conducted on the EVMs in the Kasargod constituency in Kerala. As per the report, both the Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the United Democratic Front (UDF) gave complaints to the District Collector that at least four electronic voting machines (EVM) erroneously registered extra votes in favour of the BJP.

The top court also demanded the ECI explain the working of EVM-VVPAT. To this, the poll body said that before the machines are placed in the strong room, all machines are checked via mock polling in the presence of representatives of all political parties.

During the hearing Advocate Nizham Pasha, appearing for one of the petitioners, said a voter should be allowed to take the VVPAT slip after he votes and deposit it in a ballot box. On Justice Khanna's question whether it would affect voter's privacy, Pasha replied, "Voter privacy cannot be used to defeat voter's rights."

On Tuesday, the top court had raised doubts about the petitioner's arguments regarding the feasibility of the physical counting of votes given the large population of India. 

Bhushan had contended the need to go back to election via ballot paper instead of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs). Justice Sanjiv Khanna said, "We are in our 60s. We all know what happened when there were ballot papers; you may have, but we have not forgotten."

The apex court also rejected the arguments of Bhushan, appearing for the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), about how most European countries that had opted for voting through EVMs have returned to paper ballots.

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