Arunachal’s final electoral roll has 6.96 lakh voters

Itanagar, Sep 22 (PTI): Arunachal Pradesh’s final electoral roll was published on Tuesday with 6.96 lakh voters, a reduction of 1.91 lakh from the pre-SIR count.
The final list includes 3,43,709 men, 3,52,315 women and two third-gender electors.
Officials at the election office here said 43.61 per cent of registered voters on the electoral roll possess a physical or digital Voter ID card, while the gender ratio was 1,025 women per 1,000 men. The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the northeastern state began on June 5, and the draft list was published on July 21 with 7,18,046 electors. Of these, 6,32,871 were mapped as self or progeny, while 85,175 were unmapped.
Notices were issued to those unmapped and another 1,33,413 electors with logical discrepancies for verification. In all, 2,18,588 notices were issued during the notice phase, officials said. The authorities subsequently conducted hearings and verified documents submitted by electors and undertakings furnished by booth-level officers.