Thiruvananthapuram: Those who received enumeration forms related to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls must submit them to Booth Level Officers (BLOs) by tomorrow (December 18). The State Election Commission (SEC) has confirmed that around 25 lakh voters are yet to receive the forms, and such persons have been declared untraceable.

Despite an earlier intimation that the SEC would publish a list of these voters by Tuesday night, no such list had been uploaded on its website as of Wednesday morning.

Chief Electoral Officer Rathan U Khelkar had earlier stated that the list would be published by Tuesday midnight, enabling the public to verify the details from Wednesday. Booth Level Agents (BLAs) of political parties have been tasked with scrutinising the list to ascertain whether eligible voters were wrongly excluded from the SIR process and to report the names of such persons by Thursday so that they can be included in the draft voters’ list.

At the same time, the Election Commission clarified that lists of those excluded from the SIR exercise had already been printed and handed over to BLAs through BLOs. Directions have been issued to complete meetings at the BLA and BLO levels by Wednesday itself for the formal handover of these lists.

According to estimates released by the Commission, as many as 25,08,267 persons whose names appear in the existing voters’ list were excluded from the SIR process. With booth-level officers yet to complete the digitisation of the collected data, the actual number is expected to be significantly higher.

The Commission explained that the exclusions include voters who have died, those who could not be traced, individuals who have relocated repeatedly, and cases where names appeared more than once in the voters’ list. The list of excluded voters will be published at the booth level, along with the reasons for their exclusion from the SIR process.

Those excluded who are unable to convey their eligibility to BLOs by Thursday can still seek inclusion in the final voters’ list by submitting an application along with Form 7 during the period provided for filing objections to the draft list. Complaints regarding the draft voters’ list can be submitted until January 23.

The final voters’ list will be published on February 21, following verification and hearings scheduled to conclude by February 14.

Meanwhile, the Chief Electoral Officer convened an online meeting of district collectors on Tuesday evening and directed them to share photographs and brief notes of their meetings with political party representatives on social media platforms.