India, Oct. 27 -- Election Commission officials in Karnataka have said the electoral system auto generated 61,059 Form 7 applications bearing the digital signatures of Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) and Assistant Electoral Registration Officers (AEROs) when voters could not be reached during hearings on notices issued over unmapped records or logical discrepancies.

The explanation comes amid a controversy over why none of the applications specified the grounds for seeking deletion of voters' names.

The officers, listed as the objectors in the applications, said the forms were generated during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process, with the voters concerned marked as "ineligible" after they could not be contacted during th...