CHANDIGARH, July 26 -- Haryana chief electoral officer (CEO) A Sreenivas on Saturday said that during the first phase of the now concluded Special Intensive Revision (SIR), at least 16.39% registered voters were found absent, deceased or shifted permanently and names of such electors will be deleted in the draft electoral roll to be published on July 31.

Of the state's 2,06,55,929 registered electors, there are more than 26 lakh voters whose names figure in the draft electoral roll, but they will be verified again through a "Completely transparent exercise" as they fall under the category of "System generated anomalies," the CEO said addressing a news conference.

He said that these system generated discrepancies involving 26.3 lakh mapp...