O n the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) Special Intensive Revision (SIR) 2.0 in 12 States and UTs, The Hindu editorial said, “The experience in Bihar suggests that the process... could risk the disenfranchisement of a significant number of people… As this exercise unfolds, it is incumbent upon civil society, the media and parties to assume a role of intense vigilance lest this affects the integrity of India’s electoral democracy.”

The Bihar exercise

Bihar has just undergone a SIR of its electoral roll. The documentation-heavy process, which sought to re-verify the voter eligibility of residents, triggered widespread concern over mass disenfranchisement and the stealth operationalisation of a citizenship screening regime. The ‘revised electoral rolls’ have several serious flaws in

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