India, Oct. 27 -- When the Election Commission of India announced the start of a wider recheck of all voter rolls in 12 states and UTs - calling it Phase 2 of Special Intensive Revision after Bihar earlier this year - the year 2003 became a central point for several reasons.

If your name is already on the old roll, mostly from 2003, and in some states' and UT's cases it's 2002 or 2004, then you need not prove anything else to stay on the rolls. Only the enumeration form would do in such cases. Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar said this while explaining the process at a press conference in Delhi on Monday.

But what if it is not?

Before we get to what happens to those not on the older rolls, here's a list of the states and UTs w...