Chennai: A Shankar and his daughter, S Sharmila, were given the Enumeration Form (EF) as part of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls on November 11. For over a week, they stared at the form due to the lack of details regarding the SIR conducted in 2005 – the family has moved houses twice in the past two decades within Taramani, a locality in South Chennai.

Shankar could not identify the booth where he cast his vote in 2005, as his area now falls under the Velachery assembly segment (which was carved out of Tambaram) after constituencies were redrawn in 2011.

Only on November 19 did he receive the details with the help of Booth Level Officers (BLOs) and Booth Level Agents (BLAs) of political parties who patiently searched through the voluminous voters’ list from 2005 f

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