Over three months after announcing plans for an intensive revision of electoral rolls across all states and Union Territories, the Election Commission (EC) is yet to fix dates for the nationwide exercise — a delay that officials say is eating into the window for the routine annual special summary revision, usually completed by December-end.

An intensive revision is a full-scale rebuilding of electoral rolls through house-to-house visits to record all eligible voters afresh, usually ordered when existing rolls are outdated or after exercises such as delimitation. In contrast, a summary revision is the EC’s routine annual update, where draft rolls are published and citizens submit claims for additions, deletions, or corrections without any door-to-door verification.

Under the EC’s standard

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