Chandigarh, July 16 -- Nearly one in eight registered voters in Chandigarh have not submitted their enumeration forms, handed out to them as part of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) 2026 exercise, putting them at risk for being left out of the draft electoral roll.

Addressing a press conference on Wednesday, chief electoral officer Prerna Puri said over 5 lakh voters across the city were given the forms during the enumeration phase between June 15 and July 14 but only 4.5 lakh (87%) voters submitted the forms while 66,146 (12.8%) were unaccounted for, despite repeated field visits by booth-level officers.

The administration has decided that these unverified names will not feature in the draft electoral roll to be published on July 2...