Bihar Election 2025: Considering the upcoming Bihar Elections , the Election Commission of India launched a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the state voter list. For the first time, voters were asked to show one of the 11 specific documents to prove their eligibility to vote. This unusual move was criticised by many and challenged in the Supreme Court, as it appeared similar to a citizenship test. But three months later, when the revision ended on Tuesday, the process looked very different. It had changed because of Supreme Court directions and feedback from officials working on the ground.

Initially, Aadhaar, ration cards, and even the EC’s own voter ID card (EPIC) were not accepted, though EPIC had been used in the last SIR in 2003. Only those whose names were on the 2003 ele

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