Jaipur: In a major update on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voter list, 70.55 per cent of Rajasthan’s voters will not be required to submit any documents for verification.

State Chief Electoral Officer Naveen Mahajan said the Election Department has streamlined the process.

“We had already started voter mapping in advance. More than 70 per cent of voters will not need to provide documents from the day SIR is announced,” Mahajan said.

He added that this figure could cross 80 per cent once Booth Level Officers (BLOs) begin door-to-door verification.

As of October 27, Rajasthan has 5,48,84,570 registered voters. After reviewing electoral rolls from 2002 to 2005, the department confirmed that 70.55 per cent of names matched previous SIR records.

Among them, 79.32 per cent of

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