New Delhi: Rajasthan’s voters have been counted thrice in 2026. The ongoing Special Summary Revision (SSR) has counted 5.26 crore voters. The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) counted 5.15 crore. And the State Election Commission’s (SEC) final electoral roll put the number of voters at 5.45 crore.“The SSR draft is around 11 lakh higher than the final SIR roll, yet around 18 lakh lower than the SEC’s early-October roll,” reports the Times of India.The gap between SSR draft and SIR is closer to 19 lakh. Further, the SEC has counted 30 lakh more voters than the SIR.The Election Commission of India (ECI) prepares and revises electoral rolls for Lok Sabha and Assembly elections under Article 324 of the constitution and the Representation of the People Act, 1950. The commission undertook the SIR this year as a one-off activity.SECs are constitutionally responsible for preparing and revising electoral rolls for panchayat and municipal elections under Articles 243K and 243ZA. Meanwhile, the SSR is a regular exercise of the ECI to update voter lists, which it put on hold for the SIR – then it took up the job anyway, after widespread outrage over mass deletions.This partly explains why the SIR in Rajasthan has created an additional list of voters whose numbers and names don’t match the SEC or SSR figures. What is more, the claims and objections phase of the SSR is now set to begin, so this number may change all over again, producing a fourth figure by January 2027.The Rajasthan SEC secretary, Rajesh Verma, confirmed separately to the Times of India that the SEC used the pre-SIR ECI electoral roll, last updated on January 1, 2025, to prepare its voter lists. He said it was on account of the local election preparation beginning before the SIR was over.However, a comparison done by founder of the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan, activist Nikhil Dey, has found that 26.63 lakh voters deleted during the SIR still appeared on the SEC’s local-body rolls.Dey has questioned the SEC’s use of the older voter list when the SIR list was available. He also asked how people marked deceased in the SIR could have been included in the state voter list.Ideally, adding up all rural and urban SEC voters, the total should broadly match the ECI’s electorate but the numbers vary vastly – by 30 lakh between the SIR and SEC and by 19 lakh between the SEC and SIR. Even if the geographical delienation of constituencies varies between Lok Sabha, Assembly and Panchayat polls, the 26.63 lakh “deceased” voters in the SIR who feature on the SEC list is inexplicable.For our full coverage on the SIR and the issues it has brought to citizens, click here.