India, Oct. 14 -- The Election Commission of India (ECI) has dropped a contested declaration from the online voter-registration form in states where the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls has ended, ordered a review of the software that runs its voter database and eased hearings for voters flagged during the SIR. The changes have come in the weeks since news emerged that two of its three commissioners had objected on record to some SIR-related decisions allegedly taken without their knowledge.

The Indian Express reported on September 23 that election commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi had objected at least 14 times over 10 months, four times on a single day, to decisions and some orders they said were iss...