New Delhi: Over 97% out of 12.22 million voters in Maharashtra who were flagged after the enumeration phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls have now completed verification, the Election Commission of India (ECI) said, even as the number of people applying to be added to the rolls remains low.According to the poll body, 97.16% electors marked for anomalies or non-mapping once the enumeration phase ended have finished the process. The commission has also received 2.17 million applications for adding, deleting names and correcting voter details, Hindustan Times reported.The EC flagged 12.22 million out of the 77.2 million electors who stayed on the draft roll after enumeration closed on August 31. About 5.97 million of them were “unmapped,” meaning their details could not be matched with the 2002 SIR roll. Another 6.25 million had logical discrepancies, such as mismatched ages or names. Booth Level Officers (BLOs) sent notices to these voters and asked them to share supporting documents on WhatsApp to prove their eligibility and resolve the errors.Also read: Election Commission’s Defence of Form 6 Use for Deleted Voters Ignores Supreme Court’s QuestionsAmong those with logical discrepancies, 97.94% have cleared verification. Of the 5.98 million unmapped electors, 96.35% have done so. The last date for submitting claims and documents has been pushed to November 25.Maharashtra Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) S. Chockalingam said assembly constituency-wise lists of electors whose notices are still pending have been published. “We expect the remaining 3% of electors to come forward and submit the required documents.”The commission also got 92,436 Form 7 applications for deletion and 675,338 Form 8 applications came from existing voters wanting corrections made to their details, the report mentioned.Also read: Bengal SIR Observer Says He Knew Nothing About CEO Office’s 16 Lakh Appeals Against Cleared VotersRequests for inclusion, however, remain low. “Of the 15.23 million electors whose names were left out of the draft rolls and over 3.5 million first-time voters who are yet to be enrolled, fewer than 10% have applied for inclusion. The response has been poor, possibly because there are no immediate elections scheduled in the state for at least the next three years,” a poll official was quoted as saying by HT.The ECI has revised the SIR schedule in five states, including Maharashtra, where the final roll will now be published on November 30.For our full coverage on the SIR and the issues it has brought to citizens, click here.