After the publication of the final electoral rolls for 2024 on January 22 till March 25 (the last date for enrolling), over five lakh people have submitted applications for voter registration in the 18 districts that go to poll on April 26.
As per the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) rules, eligible unregistered electors had time to update the electoral rolls till ten days before the last day of filing nominations. With April 4 being the last date for filing nominations in 18 districts, Monday was the last date.
According to data from the Election Commission, of the over 5 lakh applications received, 3.15 lakh have been accepted for registration in these districts. Not more than 38,000 of these applications have been rejected on grounds of incomplete entries (where proper documents/ photographs have not been uploaded/enclosed) and duplicate entries, an official said.
