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Goa identifies 90,000 voters as absent, shifted, deceased, or duplicate in ongoing SIR.

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As many as 90,000 electors in Goa have been identified as absent, shifted, deceased, or holding duplicate voter cards during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls, a senior official said on Sunday.

Goa has a total of 11,85,000 registered voters, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Sanjay Goel told reporters in Panaji at the start of the enumeration on November 4, PTI reported.

The Election Commission’s SIR exercise, which aims to update and verify voter records, h

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