Lucknow, Oct. 5 -- Even as the Election Commission's 'no voter to be left behind' campaign is underway, voters in Uttar Pradesh will get another chance to include their names and update their details when the poll panel launches the Special Summary Revision (SSR) of electoral rolls before the 2027 UP assembly elections. The SSR exercise is likely to be launched in October-November, according to people familiar with the matter. No specific date for the launch has been announced. The move comes months after the final electoral rolls published on April 10 under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process showed the deletion of 20.4 million (2.04 crore) names in Uttar Pradesh. While the 'no voter to be left behind' is a nationwide campaign in states and Union Territories where SIR has concluded, SSR is done annually, especially before major elections in a state. The Election Commission is likely to release the voter list for the 2027 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections in the first week of January. Ahead of the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly election, the Special Summary Revision (SSR) of photo electoral rolls was conducted in the state. The voter list was published on January 5, 2022. The Election Commission of India ordered the 'no voter to be left behind' drive in October 2026 for 20 states and UTs, including Uttar Pradesh, where the Special Intensive Revision has already concluded. It aims to re-enrol any genuine or eligible citizens whose names were accidentally omitted during recent major voter list clean-up exercises. "SIR has already been completed in 20 States/UTs. Any person whose name has got left out during SIR or thereafter, and any person including young/ first-time voter, may apply to the concerned ERO, for inclusion of their names in the electoral rolls under the process of continuous updation. CEOs have been directed to facilitate the same. The CEOs, DEOs, EROs will immediately launch a special drive for enrolment of these electors," the poll body said in a press note issued on September 26. The special drive will allow eligible electors left out during or after SIR to apply for inclusion through the continuous updation process using Form 6. District election authorities have been asked to facilitate enrolment, including through field-level assistance. Under this special drive, the ECI stated that the requirement of a declaration form along with Form 6 (for enrolment as a voter) mapping themselves or their parents to the 2002-base rolls (2003 in UP) has been scrapped. The move comes following recent reports of differences within the EC over including this additional declaration in the online Form 6. Uttar Pradesh chief electoral officer Navdeep Rinwa said any eligible citizen can apply by filling out Form-6 online through the Election Commission of India's Citizen Service Portal (voters.eci.gov.in) or the ECINET Mobile App. "They can also fill out Form-6 offline and submit it along with the required documents to their BLO/assistant electoral registration officer/electoral registration officer," he said. "Eligible citizens are required to complete all their entries accurately and without errors," he said. Special Summary Revision is annual exercise whereas the Special Intensive Revision is conducted in decades After the SIR ended in April, ECI had announced an ongoing continuous revision of electoral rolls will be implemented. All district election officers have been instructed to specifically include the names of eligible youth, missed voters, first-time voters, homeless voters, disabled voters, and women in the voter list, Rinwa said. After the SIR process concluded in April in Uttar Pradesh, the final electoral rolls had 133.9 million (13.39 crore) voters, shrinking by 13.24%, compared to 154.4 million (15.44 crore) voters listed in the electoral rolls published on October 27, 2025, after a special summary revision. After the SIR, the final voter list in UP had 133,984,792 voters including 73,071,061 (54.54%) male voters, 60,909,525 (45.46%) female voters and 4,206 (0.01%) third gender voters. There were 1,763,360 (1.32%) first time voters in the age group of 18-19 years. The SIR process in UP had resulted in the deletion of more women voters than men following which several complaints were submitted to the ECI. Women voters said their names were included first in the voter list at their father's address and then at the in-laws' address after marriage. Because these women were registered at two different addresses, they were viewed as "duplicate" or "shifted" voters and their names were deleted. The gender ratio had declined from 877 (the 2025 voter list) to 834 women voters (final electoral rolls) per 1000 male voters after the SIR final rolls were out. The ECI directed the Uttar Pradesh CEO to include the names of the missing eligible women voters in the electoral rolls. "To achieve the objective of "no voter to be left behind," all district election officers have been directed to include 100% of eligible citizens in the voter list," the CEO said. During the SIR process the ECI published the draft rolls on January 6 this year, listing 125.5 million (12.55 crore) voters. The ECI flagged 32.6 million (3.26 crore) voters for notices. Among them were 10.4 million voters to whom notices were issued due to non-mapping with the 2003 SIR. In addition, notices were also issued to 22.2 million voters in whose forms logical discrepancies were detected during the enumeration phase. According to ECI's frequently asked questions document, "The SSR of electoral rolls involves two main stages: (i) Pre-revision activities mainly include training of official, house-to-house verification by the Booth Level Officers (BLO) for identification of un-enrolled eligible electors, identification of discrepancies, removal of multiple/shifted/dead electors, standardization of addresses, rationalization and modification of polling stations, updation of control tables, preparation of website, integration of supplements and preparation of draft roll. (ii) Revision activities: The actual revision starts with the publication of the draft electoral roll. With the publication of draft electoral roll, the ERO invites claims and objections from all eligible citizens and after processing of such applications, with due procedure, inclusion/deletions/correction of entries is carried out by ERO. Discrepancies already identified by BLOs during the pre-revision activities are also taken-up for removal during this period. All the inclusions, deletions and correction carried out during this period are updated in the electoral roll database and electoral roll is finally published on the date as per approved schedule."...