The Election Commission on Tuesday revised the number of polling booths from which all distributed enumeration forms were returned during the SIR of electoral rolls, bringing the figure significantly down to 480 from the earlier 2,208.

This implies that there is not a single dead, duplicate or untraceable voter in any of these 480 booths, EC officials said.

West Bengal has a little over 78,000 booths, spread across 294 assembly constituencies.

An EC official told PTI that while District Electoral Officers (DEOs) had earlier reported 2,208 booths on December 1, a fresh verification following instructions from the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) revealed that the figure was only 480.

''Once we sought reports from the officials of districts on Monday and asked them to double check about the

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