As many as 12 thousand two voters are enrolled in voters' list but their names have been omitted from the final electoral rolls. They will now be rehabilitated. The Election Commission has taken a tough stand on this lapse and has instructed the concerning officers to affix responsibility for this. It has also instructed to quickly dispose of 25 thousand 708 pending cases of adding names to the electoral rolls under Form-6.

The commission was intimated of this situation and its view was sought on the issue. The commission pondered the matter seriously as to how the names shown in the voters' lists with photographs were omitted in the finally published electoral rolls even when the returning officers or assistant returning officers had not instructed for their removal. Exercising its power under Article 324 of the Constitution and other powers, the commission has ordered that the entries of the omitted names be rehabilitated and published in appendices to the electoral rolls.

The commission has also instructed the election returning officers to keep a detailed report and record about this ready. They will also prepare a separate list of rehabilitated voters. Their serial numbers in the originally published voters' lists and supplementary voters' list will be specially shown. A copy of it will be provided to observers so that they can undertake random filed verification. The concerning election officers will also issue a certificate that the names omitted by mistake have been rehabilitated. This certificate will be given after tallying the omitted names with the draft voters' lists. The chief election officers will send a confirmation letter also to the commission.

The commission has instructed to analyse the mistake of omission of voters' names and affix the responsibility for the same and a report be sent to the commission for further action.