Standing in front of an estate’s barrack-style quarters in Kallur, which falls under the Kalpetta Assembly seat in Kerala, a government school teacher Vineetha V K flips through the electoral rolls of booth number 130.

She is one of the booth-level officers (BLOs) tasked with visiting voters as part of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, which the Election Commission (EC) kickstarted across the state Tuesday ahead of the 2026 Assembly polls.

While her target is to verify the details of 1,082 voters of the booth, Vineetha has been given a list of only the first 300 on her first day. Finding that most voters are not part of the initial list she has received, she moves to a nearby estate factory at Peringoda, where a worker and local CPI(M) leader, Vinod V, comes to her

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