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New Delhi: The special intensive revision (SIR) of Karnataka’s voter rolls has concluded, with the exercise lopping off close to a crore names from the state’s electorate as it stood shortly before the distribution of enumeration forms.

Published after the roughly four-month-long SIR, Karnataka’s final electoral rolls contain 4,54,55,689 (4.55 crore) names, a hefty 99.77 lakh less than the 5,54,32,314 (5.54 crore) that were present days before enumeration forms began being handed out.

Compared to the electorate as on June 16, the final rolls published on Tuesday (October 27) are 18% smaller.

As on the former date, 5.54 crore enumeration forms accounting for the state’s electorate were........

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