New Delhi: Election authorities in Delhi ‘disposed’ 1.33 lakh notices on a daily basis in the roughly 12 days from September 30 to October 12, the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Delhi said on Monday (October 12). With this, the burden of notices has fallen from 33 lakh to 13 lakh, and the Election Commission of India (ECI) has until November 30 to respond to them.So far, the election administration has ‘disposed’ of 20 lakh notices in the ongoing claims and objections phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR). It does not mean that all 20 lakh voters have been cleared for inclusion on the final voter roll.The 20 lakh figure includes those who have failed to prove that they belong on the electoral roll. The final electoral roll is due to be published on December 4. The claims and objections phase ends on October 30.In the first 30 days of the claims and objections phase that began after the draft roll was published on August 31, election staff could clear only 4 lakh notices. The Indian Express reports that the process speeded up in October due to the simplification of rules and a “proactive” resolution of notices.Delhi had around 1.45 crore voters before the SIR began, and the draft roll during the SIR had only 97.5 lakh. Even though they made it to the draft roll, 33% of these 97.5 lakh voters had received notices from the election commission, asking them to provide proof of eligibility to vote.After the Indian Express reported on the dissent within the ECI over the SIR process, the election commission announced it was making the process easier on voters – they were no longer required to visit the Electoral Roll Officer (ERO) if they were sent notices for “logical discrepancy” or because they could not trace themselves or a family member to the previous SIR conducted in 2002.Logical discrepancies, whose criteria have remained unclear, were responsible for over 19.3 lakh notices while around 13.8 lakh were sent notices due to lack of “mapping” to a previous SIR.BLOs would now go from house to house to collect at least one of 12 ECI-designated documents from those issued notices. Family members were allowed to report on behalf of each other, and online hearings were promised. The number of assistant EROs was tripled as well. Special camps were held for vulnerable groups and others, the publication reports.It must be noted that the list containing the 33 lakh voters on the draft roll who had been issued notices was revealed to the public by the ECI after a furore. Even so, the CEO did not release a list that was searchable by voter ID number.However, Delhi still ended the draft SIR with an electoral roll that had shrunk by more than 47 lakh voters – they were marked as absent, shifted, duplicate or deceased by Booth Level Officers during the first phase of the SIR – which began in June this year.Prior to the SIR, in the 16 preceding months, another 11 lakh were deleted due to ordinary revisions in the list. In all, the list has shrunk by 58 lakh since the last Assembly election. It is yet to be seen how many voters register themselves using Form 6 in Delhi, and by how much the total voter roll shrinks by December 4.For our full coverage on the SIR and the issues it has brought to citizens, click here.