The final roll published on Tuesday saw the removal of 1,88,324 voters.Bengaluru also saw highest number of overall deletions.Across Karnataka, 43,82,824 notices were issued and hearings held in all the cases, according to the Chief Electoral Officer’s final report. Of these, 43,20,957 electors were retained in the final roll after verification, while 61,867 were declared ineligible.
These people were removed from the electoral roll through Form 7s generated by the electoral officers who marked them as ineligible, Karnataka Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) V Anbukkumar said.The exclusions amounted to about 1.4% of those who went through the notice process, but the rates differed considerably between constituencies.In Bommanahalli, 4,136 of the 1,02,361 people issued notices were marked ineligible, a rate of about 4%. KR Pura recorded 3,081 exclusions among 1,76,909 notices, while Mahadevapura had 2,870 among 1,71,623.
Both constituencies had exclusion rates of about 1.7%.