India, Nov. 12 -- Activists Anjali Bhardwaj and Amrita Johri have asked the Election Commission of India (ECI) to widen its November 6 relief for voters left out of the draft rolls and cover every voter on the Absent, Shifted, Dead, Duplicate (ASDD) lists across the country, not just the seven states where the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) is underway.

On November 6, the ECI wrote to the Chief Electoral Officers of Delhi, Maharashtra, Haryana, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Telangana and Nagaland to facilitate the inclusion of such voters in the final rolls. It ordered that booth-wise lists of ASDD electors whose enumeration forms were never received be displayed afresh at polling stations, panchayat bhawans and urban local body offices....