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Panaji: As many as 90,000 electors in Goa have either been found absent, shifted, deceased or possessing duplicate voter cards in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state, a senior official said on Sunday.

Goa has a total of 11,85,000 voters, as per data provided at the start of the enumeration on November 4, state Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Sanjay Goel told reporters in Panaji.

The extensive Special Intensive Revision undertaken by the Election Commission resulted in the filling of 10,55,000 forms, he said, adding that 96.5 per cent of these forms have been digitised and received by the poll authority.

Goel said that “90,000 voters have been categorised as absent, shifted, dead, or duplicate”. Nearly 40,000 enumeration forms are still pending submission to t

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