As the enumeration phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise ended in West Bengal, it has come to light that over 50 lakh voters are likely to be excluded from the voters’ list. The number of dead, transferred, and missing voters has increased slightly.

Statistics provided by the Election Commission sources reveal that a total of 58,80,202 names are going to be excluded after the enumeration phase ends on Thursday. There may be slight changes in these figures in the draft list. However, there is no possibility of much change.

The number of dead voters in the state so far is 24,18,699. The number of missing voters amounts to 12,11,462 people. A person is considered missing if the concerned booth-level officer (BLO) visits a voter's house three or more times in search of him

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