Civil society groups plan Kodagu audit of voter-roll deletions

Civil society groups in Kodagu plan to conduct a social audit on September 29 over deletions from the electoral roll during the Special Intensive Revision exercise. The groups will read out the draft roll and the list classified as Absent, Shifted, Duplicate, Dead and Others, known by the acronym ASDDO. They will then compare those entries with the pre-SIR electoral roll organised by polling station.

The exercise is intended to examine changes between the earlier roll and the draft list, according to the supplied information. The material does not say how many voters are included in the ASDDO list, how many polling stations will be covered or which organisations are participating. It also does not identify specific alleged deletions or say whether the audit has already found errors.

No response from election officials or political parties is included, and the available account does not state what action the groups will seek if discrepancies are found. The planned comparison will focus on voters recorded in the earlier polling-station-wise roll and their status in the draft roll and ASDDO list. The exercise is scheduled for September 29 in Kodagu, but the supplied material provides no further logistical details.

The account describes the audit as a civil-society effort to scrutinise voter-list changes rather than reporting a completed finding.