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157<script type="application/ld+json"> 158 {"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","isAccessibleForFree":"True","inLanguage":"en","url":"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/express-exclusive\/election-commission-goa-sir-voter-deletion-ecinet-10891422\/","articleSection":"Express Investigations","headline":"\u2018Still awaited… urgently required\u2019: Goa staff sent 8 emails in 7 days, but EC shut out valid voters","description":"For a Goan, being off the roll costs more than a vote: Dialysis to transplants, state health support scheme open only to voters","articleBody":"Ninety-seven voters may not matter in the world\u2019s largest democracy of over 900 million voters but this story from Goa has national significance. On Wednesday, The Indian Express reported that two Election Commissioners in the three-member Election Commission of India objected on record 14 times in 10 months to steps taken by the ECI under Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar \u2014 from keep\u00ading them in the dark to adding new voters and deleting names. What the two Election Commissioners, Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, primarily warned against \u2014 the centralisation of ECINet and cutting out state ground-level officials \u2014 has played out in Goa, and its trail is recorded. On February 17, four days before Goa was due to publish its final electoral roll under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), the state\u2019s Chief Electoral Officer wrote to the ECI in Delhi. This was his eighth time in seven days. Attached was a list of 97 voters whom Goa\u2019s own Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) had heard, examined and found eligible under a process laid down by the Supreme Court. The earlier decisions to strike them off \u201chave to be reversed,\u201d the email said. But the EROs could not reverse those decisions through the software (ECINet). Reason: the permission to do so was controlled from Delhi. The next day, the Commission's own Deputy Election Commissioner wrote to the Director General of IT, Seema Khanna, \u201cIT system cannot block necessary action as per the directions of SC. Please facilitate the desired action to publish. as per the decision taken by EROS\/AEROs and conveyed to you in these emails.\u201d On February 21, the final roll was published. The Indian Express checked all 97 names against it. Until September 20, all 97 are still missing. When asked why several voters remained missing from the final SIR roll despite being found eligible, Goa Chief Electoral Officer Sanjay Goel told The Indian Express, \u201cWe apprised the ECI about the cases to be included wherein voters were flagged for logical discrepancies.\u201d He added, \u201cThe call (to not include) was theirs. But there has to be some mechanism (in ECINET) to re-include voters at the ERO level.\u201d Proof of the pudding The 97 are a case study in what the two Election Commissioners have spent the past year warning about. By law, the electoral roll of each Assembly constituency is prepared by its ERO, usually the sub-divisional magistrate, who hears every claim and objection and decides every name. Since January, every electoral roll in the country has sat on ECINet, the platform the Commission launched to bring its systems together, and its roll-management module, ERONet. What an ERO can do on it is decided by permissions set in the Commission's IT division in Delhi. An investigation by The Indian Express into the working of the Election Commission over the past year has found that Election Commissioners Sandhu and Joshi recorded, in notes from November to August, that the centralised control of the software was taking the roll out of the EROs' hands, where the law puts it. Joshi wrote in May of \u201cthe gradual centralisation\u201d of the electoral roll database. Sandhu wrote in August that EROs, DEOs and CEOs \u201cdon't have proper and complete access to the ERONet portal\u201d, and that \u201cDG(IT) doesn't have any legal authority to restrict proper and complete access and freedom to operate, as given by law, to the statutory authorities\u201d. When ERO\u2019s decision doesn\u2019t count The Election Commission\u2019s answer to every allegation of a rigged roll has been that no one person can touch it: thousands of EROs prepare it, constituency by constituency. Goa shows what happens when that stops being true. In Goa, the ERO heard the voter, saw the document and decided in their favour, and it made no difference, because the system that records the roll answers to a division in Delhi, and the division did not act even when the C
158ommission's own Deputy Election Commissioner told it to. WATCH | Sukhbir Sandhu, Vivek Joshi: Who are the ECs who objected to SIR? The Indian Express sent a questionnaire to Seema Khanna, who heads the division as EC's DG IT, asking why the rollback facility was not enabled for Goa before the final roll. There was no response. What the SC ordered, and what Goa did A \u201clogical discrepancy\u201d is not a finding that someone is not a voter. It is a mismatch the Election Commission's software throws up when it tries to link an elector to a parent or grandparent on the roll from the last SIR, such as a parent's name that doesn't match, an age gap between parent and child of under 15 or over 50 years, an age that doesn't progress correctly between the old roll and new, or a case where the elector submitted no document, or only Aadhaar. On January 29, in the SIR batch of petitions, a Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi ordered that the names of those flagged for logical discrepancies be displayed at gram panchayat bhavans, public places, taluka and sub-division offices and urban ward offices, with \u201cthe brief reason of discrepancy\u201d - and that those affected be allowed ten days to submit documents or objections and be heard. The order was about Tamil Nadu, but the court said it expected the Election Commission to \u201censure compliance with these procedural directions in all the States wherever the SIR process is ongoing\u201d. On January 31, the Commission issued a letter to implement it. Goa did. The lists went up. According to the CEO's emails, 649 electors came forward with documents or objections. EROs and Assistant EROs examined them. In 97 cases they concluded that the elector had, in the CEO's words, \u201cbecome eligible to be included in the final Electoral Roll\u201d, and that the earlier decision \u201chas to be reversed\u201d. Business as usual by E P Unny Seven days, eight pleas, no answer The problem was that the decision to flag them had already been entered on ECINet, and the system had no rollback option that would let the EROs reverse it. Requests for the same had been coming from the field since January 22. On February 11, Goa Electronics Limited, the state agency that supports the CEO's office on the software, wrote to the CEO and to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the Commission's vendor, that \u201cthe required rollback\/ reversion functionality, including the document re-upload option, has still not been provided in the system\u201d, despite \u201cmultiple emails\u201d from DEOs, EROs and AEROs and the matter having been \u201ccommunicated to the concerned officials of ECI and TCS\u201d. It maintained a spreadsheet of every request. The CEO forwarded it to Delhi the same day, to the Senior Deputy Election Commissioner in charge of Goa, Gyanesh Bharti, with Khanna copied. Every email that followed went the same way. No reply is on record, and none was acted on. February 13: \u201cresponse to any of the emails and letters sent from officer of the Chief Electoral Officer, Goa. is still awaited.\u201d Of the electors who had come forward after the (logical discrepancy) lists went up, \u201cthere are 97 cases, in which the roll back option is required, as the decision taken earlier has to be reversed in view of documents\/objections received from the concerned electors\u201d. February 14 (2 emails, at 12.52pm and 6.11pm): \u201cIt is once again requested to kindly make available the provision for Roll back\/revert back along with the document re-upload facility at the earliest.\u201d February 14 (by letter): Goel wrote formally to Senior DEC Gyanesh Bharti (in charge of Goa) copying Khanna: \u201cno response has been received\u201d to the emails of the previous two days. February 15: \u201cThe Roll back option is urgently required. The matter is most urgent and requires immediate necessary action to be taken by the concerned ERO\/AERO officers to facilitate timely compliance of the Hon'ble Supreme Court's Order.\u201d February 16: \u201cresponse to any of the emails and letters sent from office of the Chief Electoral Officer, Goa, with respect to the above cited subject is still awaited.\u201d February 17: The list of 97 logical discrepancy cases, \u201cin which the decisions taken by the ERO\/AERO earlier. have to be reversed as the concerned electors have become eligible to be included in the final Electoral Roll. it is requested that necessary action may be taken to include these electors in the Final Electoral Roll of SIR 2026.\u201d February 18: Sanjay Kumar, the Deputy Ele
158ction Commissioner who holds the electoral roll charge in Delhi, to Khanna: \u201cEROs\/AEROs have powers u\/s 21\/21A to take corrective action. In any case, IT system cannot block necessary action as per the directions of SC. please facilitate the desired action to publish ER as per the decision taken by EROs\/AEROs and conveyed to you in these emails.\u201d February 21: The final roll was published. The 97 were not on it. Also Read | \u2018Act of treason\u2019: Rahul Gandhi renews \u2018vote chori\u2019 charge after Express report Who are the 97, why it's a big deal for them Sixty-five of the 97 are from Taleigao, the seat that was held by the BJP's Jennifer Monserrate, who passed away in July this year. The rest are from St Cruz, Cumbarjua, Priol, Margao, Benaulim and Velim assembly seats. For a Goan, being off the roll costs more than a vote. Several state schemes use the electoral roll to establish eligibility. The Goa Mediclaim Scheme, which funds super-speciality treatment not available in government hospitals (dialysis, angioplasty, open-heart surgery, transplants, chemotherapy, cochlear implants) is open only to voters of the state. When the names did not go in, the electoral officers on the ground told these voters to apply afresh on Form 6, the form for new voters. \u25c6 Express investigation \u25c6 14 times in 10 months, two Election Commissioners objected on record to poll panel steps From keeping them in the dark to adding new voters, deleting names, Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi flagged \"unauthorised, illegal\" moves. Read the full story \u2192 'ECs knocked on Cabinet Secretary\u2019s door over voter software integrity Over ten months, from November to August, the two Commissioners said so repeatedly and in writing Read the full story \u2192 \u2018Illegal, unauthorised\u2019: Election Commissioners objected to Form 6 change The section itself was not marked mandatory, but applicants could not proceed to submit the form without answering it. Read the full story \u2192 What Election Commission rift reveals: Cloud over its conduct There has been dissent within the Election Commission earlier but this one is very different. Read the full story \u2192","datePublished":"2026-09-24T05:50:43+05:30","dateModified":"2026-09-24T10:21:54+05:30","image":"https:\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2026\/09\/Udham-Singh-Nagar-Haridwar-Dehradun-and-Nainital-account-for-over-85-of-130382-Form-7-applications-filed-during-SIRs-claims-and-objections-period_20260923232352_1f9e90.jpg","copyrightYear":"2026","keywords":"Goa sir, goa voters, Goa Special Intensive Revision (SIR), Goa, Goa government, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, Gyanesh Kumar, Supreme Court, Election Commission of India (ECI), Rahul Gandhi, Akhilesh Yadav, Mamata Banerjee, Omar Abdullah, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar resignation, Gyanesh Kumar resignation, model code of conduct, Elections Model Code of Conduct, Indian express news, current affairs","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/express-exclusive\/election-commission-goa-sir-voter-deletion-ecinet-10891422\/"},"author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ritika Chopra","url":"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/profile\/author\/ritika-chopra\/"}],"publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","name":"The Indian Express","url":"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/","foundingDate":"1932","ethicsPolicy":"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/privacy-policy\/","SameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/indianexpress","https:\/\/twitter.com\/IndianExpress","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@indianexpress","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/indianexpress\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/indian-express\/"],"logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2019\/11\/ienewlogo3_new.png","width":"600","height":"60"}},"associatedMedia":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2026\/09\/Udham-Singh-Nagar-Haridwar-Dehradun-and-Nainital-account-for-over-85-of-130382-Form-7-applications-filed-during-SIRs-claims-and-objections-period_20260923232352_1f9e90.jpg","caption":"On February 21, the final roll was published. The Indian Express checked all 97 names against it. Until September 20, all 97 are still missing.\n","description":"Goa sir, goa voters, Goa Special Intensive Revision (SIR), Goa, Goa government, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, Gyanesh Kumar, Supreme Court, Election Commission of India (ECI), Rahul Gandhi, Akhilesh Yadav, Mamata Banerjee, Omar Abdullah, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar resignation, Gyanesh Kumar resignation, model code of conduct, Elections Model Code of Conduct, Indian express news, current affairs","width":1600,"height":900},"hasPart":[],"isPartOf":{"@type":["CreativeWork","Product"],"name":"IE Premium","productID":"indianexpress.com:showcase"},"contentLocation":{"@type":"AdministrativeArea","name":"Panaji"},"video":[],"audio":[]} </script>
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372 <div id="pcl-full-content" class="story_details"><p>Ninety-seven voters may not matter in the worldâs largest democracy of over 900 million voters but this story from Goa has national significance.</p> 373<p>On Wednesday, <strong><a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/express-exclusive/election-commission-sir-14-objections-gyanesh-kumar-sukhbir-singh-sandhu-vivek-joshi-10889737/"><em>The Indian Express</em> reported</a></strong> that <strong><a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/india/decisions-unanimous-election-commission-response-sir-vote-express-investigation-gyanesh-kumar-10890491/" class="">two Election Commissioners</a></strong> in the three-member Election Commission of India objected on record 14 times in 10 months to steps taken by the ECI under <strong><a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/india/rajya-sabha-chairman-cp-radhakrishnan-rejected-opposition-motion-remove-cec-gyanesh-kumar-10622419/" class="">Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar</a></strong> â from keepÂing them in the dark to adding new voters and deleting names.</p><img class="lazyloading" src="https://indianexpress.com/wp-content/themes/indianexpress/images/default-ie.jpg" data-lazy-type="lazyloading-image" data-src="https://data.indianexpress.com/election2019/track_1x1.jpg" data-lazy-src="https://data.indianexpress.com/election2019/track_1x1.jpg" alt="" width="1px" height="1px" style="display:none;"> 374<p>What the two Election Commissioners, Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, primarily warned against â the <strong><a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/india/ecinet-portal-cyberattack-election-commission-68-lakh-malicious-hits-2026-results-10676447/" class="">centralisation of ECINet</a> </strong>and cutting out state ground-level officials â has played out in Goa, and its trail is recorded.</p><div class="ie-premium-content-block paywall container-wall-exclusive"> <div class="ie-mobile-ad-carousel"> 375 <div class="ie-adtext"> 376 <span style="color:rgb(107,107,107);">Story continues below. </span> 377 <a href="https://indianexpress.com/express-plus/subscription-plan/?pageCode=15&ref=ad_pos_3" class="">Subscribe to see fewer ads.</a> 378 </div> 379 <div class="ie-carousel-track"> 380 <div class="ie-carousel-slide"><div class="adboxtop adsizes"><div id="gpt_ad_IE_ROS_ATF_300X250_INARTICLE" class="ad-slot "></div></div></div><div class="ie-carousel-slide"><div class="adboxtop adsizes"><div id="gpt_ad_IE_ROS_ATF_300X250_INARTICLE_1" class="ad-slot "></div></div></div><div class="ie-carousel-slide"><div class="adboxtop adsizes"><div id="gpt_ad_IE_ROS_ATF_300X250_INARTICLE_2" class="ad-slot "></div></div></div> </div> 381 <div class="ie-carousel-controls"> 382 <button type="button" class="ie-carousel-arrow ie-carousel-arrow-prev" aria-label="Previous slide"> 383 <span aria-hidden="true"></span> 384 </button> 385 <button type="button" class="ie-carousel-arrow ie-carousel-arrow-next" aria-label="Next slide"> 386 <span aria-hidden="true"></span> 387 </button> 388 </div> 389 </div> 390 <style> 391 .ie-mobile-ad-carousel { overflow: hidden; position: relative; touch-action: pan-y; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: -1.25rem; margin-right: -1.25rem; width: calc(100% + 40px); height: 350px; } 392 .ie-mobile-ad-carousel .ie-carousel-track { display: flex; transition: transform 0.35s ease; will-change: transform; } 393 .ie-mobile-ad-carousel .ie-carousel-slide { min-width: 100%; width: 100%; flex: 0 0 100%; } 394 .ie-mobile-ad-carousel .ad-bg-container > div, .ie-mobile-ad-carousel .ad-bg-container iframe { margin: 0 auto; display: block; } 395 .ie-mobile-ad-carousel .ie-carousel-arrow { -webkit-appearance: none; appearance: none; z-index: 5; display: flex !important; align-items: center; justify-content: center; width: 30px; height: 30px; padding: 0; margin: 0; border: 0; cursor: pointer;background:transparent;position:absolute;} 396 .ie-mobile-ad-carousel .ie-carousel-arrow-prev {background-image:url("/wp-content/themes/indianexpress/images/no-bg-left-arrow.svg");background-repeat: no-repeat;background-position: 5px 0;bottom:-7px;left:90px;} 397 .ie-mobile-ad-carousel .ie-carousel-arrow-next {background-image:url("/wp-content/themes/indianexpress/images/no-bg-right-arrow.svg");background-repeat: no-repeat;background-position: 8px 0;bottom:-7px;right:100px;} 398 .ie-mobile-ad-carousel .ads-container{display: flex;align-items: center;justify-content: center;margin-bottom:0;} 399 .ie-mobile-ad-carousel .ie-adtext{text-align: center;} 400 .ie-mobile-ad-carousel{background: #f8f8f8a1;padding-top: 10px;} 401 .ie-mobile-ad-carousel .ie-container .ads-container{margin-bottom:10px;} 402 .ie-mobile-ad-carousel .ie-adtext{padding:0;} 403 .ie-container .ie-mobile-ad-carousel .ads-container {min-height: 290px;padding-top:15px;}
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583 584 585<p>On February 17, four days before Goa was due to publish its final electoral roll under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), the stateâs Chief Electoral Officer wrote to the ECI in Delhi. This was his eighth time in seven days. Attached was a list of 97 voters whom Goaâs own Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) had heard, examined and found eligible under a process laid down by the Supreme Court.</p> 586<p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe title="âStill awaited… urgently requiredâ: Goa staff sent 8 emails in 7 days, but EC shut out valid voters" class="iframe-lazy youtube-player" width="640" height="360" src="https://indianexpress.com/wp-content/themes/indianexpress/images/lazy_placeholder.gif" data-lazy-type="iframe" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XV6bsCPoh1g?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p><div id="taboola-mid-article-personalisation"></div> 587<p>The earlier decisions to strike them off âhave to be reversed,â the email said. But the EROs could not reverse those decisions through the software (<strong><a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/india/ecinet-portal-cyberattack-election-commission-68-lakh-malicious-hits-2026-results-10676447/" class="">ECINet</a></strong>). Reason: the permission to do so was controlled from Delhi.</p> 588<p>The next day, the Commission’s own Deputy Election Commissioner wrote to the Director General of IT, Seema Khanna, âIT system cannot block necessary action as per the directions of SC. Please facilitate the desired action to publish… as per the decision taken by EROS/AEROs and conveyed to you in these emails.â</p> 589<p>On February 21, the final roll was published. <em>The Indian Express</em> checked all 97 names against it. Until September 20, all 97 are still missing.</p><div class="adboxtop adsizes"><div class="ie-adtext">Story continues below this ad</div><div id="gpt_ad_IE_ROS_ROTATE_1_300X250" class="ad-slot "></div></div> 590<p>When asked why several voters remained missing from the final SIR roll despite being found eligible, Goa Chief Electoral Officer Sanjay Goel told <em>The Indian Express</em>, âWe apprised the ECI about the cases to be included wherein voters were flagged for logical discrepancies.â</p> 591<p>He added, âThe call (to not include) was theirs. But there has to be some mechanism (in ECINET) to re-include voters at the ERO level.â</p> 592<h2>Proof of the pudding</h2> 593<p>The 97 are a case study in what the two Election Commissioners have spent the past year warning about.</p> 594<p>By law, the electoral roll of each Assembly constituency is prepared by its ERO, usually the sub-divisional magistrate, who hears every claim and objection and decides every name. Since January, every electoral roll in the country has sat on ECINet, the platform the Commission launched to bring its systems together, and its roll-management module, ERONet. What an ERO can do on it is decided by permissions set in the Commission’s IT division in Delhi.</p><div class="adboxtop adsizes"><div class="ie-adtext">Story continues below this ad</div><div id="gpt_ad_IE_ROS_ROTATE_2_300X250" class="ad-slot "></div></div> 595<p>An investigation by <em>The Indian Express</em> into the working of the Election Commission over the past year has found that Election Commissioners Sandhu and Joshi recorded, in notes from November to August, that the centralised control of the software was taking the roll out of the EROs’ hands, where the law puts it. Joshi wrote in May of âthe gradual centralisationâ of the electoral roll database.</p> 596<p>Sandhu wrote in August that EROs, DEOs and CEOs âdon’t have proper and complete access to the ERONet portalâ, and that âDG(IT) doesn’t have any legal authority to restrict proper and complete access and freedom to operate, as given by law, to the statutory authoritiesâ.</p> 597<p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe title="âStill awaited… urgently requiredâ: Goa staff sent 8 emails in 7 days, but EC shut out valid voters" class="iframe-lazy youtube-player" width="640" height="360" src="https://indianexpress.com/w
597p-content/themes/indianexpress/images/lazy_placeholder.gif" data-lazy-type="iframe" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2tcdWRXoUAM?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p> 598<h2>When EROâs decision doesnât count</h2> 599<p>The Election Commissionâs answer to every allegation of a rigged roll has been that no one person can touch it: thousands of EROs prepare it, constituency by constituency. Goa shows what happens when that stops being true.</p> 600<p>In Goa, the ERO heard the voter, saw the document and decided in their favour, and it made no difference, because the system that records the roll answers to a division in Delhi, and the division did not act even when the Commission’s own Deputy Election Commissioner told it to.</p><div class="adboxtop adsizes"><div class="ie-adtext">Story continues below this ad</div><div id="gpt_ad_IE_ROS_ROTATE_3_300X250" class="ad-slot "></div></div> 601<p><strong>WATCH | <a href="https://indianexpress.com/videos/explained-video/sukhbir-singh-sandhu-vivek-joshi-who-are-the-2-ecs-who-objected-to-sir/" class="">Sukhbir Sandhu, Vivek Joshi: Who are the ECs who objected to SIR?</a></strong></p> 602<p><em>The Indian Express</em> sent a questionnaire to Seema Khanna, who heads the division as EC’s DG IT, asking why the rollback facility was not enabled for Goa before the final roll. There was no response.</p> 603<h2>What the SC ordered, and what Goa did</h2> 604<p>A âlogical discrepancyâ is not a finding that someone is not a voter.</p> 605<p>It is a mismatch the Election Commission’s software throws up when it tries to link an elector to a parent or grandparent on the roll from the last SIR, such as a parent’s name that doesn’t match, an age gap between parent and child of under 15 or over 50 years, an age that doesn’t progress correctly between the old roll and new, or a case where the elector submitted no document, or only Aadhaar.</p><div class="adboxtop adsizes"><div class="ie-adtext">Story continues below this ad</div><div id="gpt_ad_IE_ROS_ROTATE_4_300X250" class="ad-slot "></div></div> 606<p>On January 29, in the SIR batch of petitions, a Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi ordered that the names of those flagged for logical discrepancies be displayed at gram panchayat bhavans, public places, taluka and sub-division offices and urban ward offices, with âthe brief reason of discrepancyâ — and that those affected be allowed ten days to submit documents or objections and be heard.</p> 607<p>The order was about Tamil Nadu, but the court said it expected the Election Commission to âensure compliance with these procedural directions in all the States wherever the SIR process is ongoingâ. On January 31, the Commission issued a letter to implement it.</p> 608<p>Goa did. The lists went up. According to the CEO’s emails, 649 electors came forward with documents or objections. EROs and Assistant EROs examined them. In 97 cases they concluded that the elector had, in the CEO’s words, âbecome eligible to be included in the final Electoral Rollâ, and that the earlier decision âhas to be reversedâ.</p> 609<span class="custom-caption"><img width="1600" height="1664" class="lazyloading size-medium wp-image-10891572" src="https://indianexpress.com/wp-content/themes/indianexpress/images/default-ie.jpg" data-lazy-type="lazyloading-image" data-src="https://images.indianexpress.com/2026/09/election-1600.jpeg?resize=577,600" alt="election commission" data-srcset="https://indianexpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/election-1600.jpeg 1600w, https://indianexpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/election-1600.jpeg?resize=433,450 433w, https://indianexpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/election-1600.jpeg?resize=577,600 577w, https://indianexpress.com/w
609p-content/uploads/2026/09/election-1600.jpeg?resize=768,799 768w, https://indianexpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/election-1600.jpeg?resize=389,405 389w, https://indianexpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/election-1600.jpeg?resize=1477,1536 1477w" sizes="(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px" /> Business as usual by E P Unny</span> 610<h2>Seven days, eight pleas, no answer</h2> 611<p>The problem was that the decision to flag them had already been entered on ECINet, and the system had no rollback option that would let the EROs reverse it. Requests for the same had been coming from the field since January 22.</p><div class="adboxtop adsizes"><div class="ie-adtext">Story continues below this ad</div><div id="gpt_ad_IE_ROS_ROTATE_5_300X250" class="ad-slot "></div></div> 612<p>On February 11, Goa Electronics Limited, the state agency that supports the CEO’s office on the software, wrote to the CEO and to <a rel="noamphtml" class="keywordtourl" href="https://www.financialexpress.com/market/tata-consultancy-services-ltd-share-price/" class="" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Tata Consultancy Services</a> (<a rel="noamphtml" class="keywordtourl" href="https://www.financialexpress.com/market/tata-consultancy-services-ltd-share-price/" class="" rel="noopener" target="_blank">TCS</a>), the Commission’
612s vendor, that âthe required rollback/ reversion functionality, including the document re-upload option, has still not been provided in the systemâ, despite âmultiple emailsâ from DEOs, EROs and AEROs and the matter having been âcommunicated to the concerned officials of ECI and TCSâ. It maintained a spreadsheet of every request.</p> 613<p>The CEO forwarded it to Delhi the same day, to the Senior Deputy Election Commissioner in charge of Goa, Gyanesh Bharti, with Khanna copied.</p> 614<p>Every email that followed went the same way. No reply is on record, and none was acted on.</p> 615<p>February 13: âresponse to any of the emails and letters sent from officer of the Chief Electoral Officer, Goa… is still awaited.â Of the electors who had come forward after the (logical discrepancy) lists went up, âthere are 97 cases, in which the roll back option is required, as the decision taken earlier has to be reversed in view of documents/objections received from the concerned electorsâ.</p><div class="adboxtop adsizes"><div class="ie-adtext">Story continues below this ad</div><div id="gpt_ad_IE_ROS_ROTATE_6_300X250" class="ad-slot "></div></div> 616<p>February 14 (2 emails, at 12.52pm and 6.11pm): âIt is once again requested to kindly make available the provision for Roll back/revert back along with the document re-upload facility at the earliest.â</p> 617<p>February 14 (by letter): Goel wrote formally to Senior DEC Gyanesh Bharti (in charge of Goa) copying Khanna: âno response has been receivedâ to the emails of the previous two days.</p> 618<p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" title="âStill awaited… urgently requiredâ: Goa staff sent 8 emails in 7 days, but EC shut out valid voters" class="iframe-lazy youtube-player" width="640" height="360" src="https://indianexpress.com/wp-content/themes/indianexpress/images/lazy_placeholder.gif" data-lazy-type="iframe" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jy-isXCpu30?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p> 619<p>February 15: âThe Roll back option is urgently required… The matter is most urgent and requires immediate necessary action to be taken by the concerned ERO/AERO officers to facilitate timely compliance of the Hon’ble Supreme Court’s Order…â</p> 620<p>February 16: âresponse to any of the emails and letters sent from office of the Chief Electoral Officer, Goa, with respect to the above cited subject is still awaited.â</p><div class="adboxtop adsizes"><div class="ie-adtext">Story continues below this ad</div><div id="gpt_ad_IE_ROS_ROTATE_7_300X250" class="ad-slot "></div></div> 621<p>February 17: The list of 97 logical discrepancy cases, âin which the decisions taken by the ERO/AERO earlier… have to be reversed as the concerned electors have become eligible to be included in the final Electoral Roll… it is requested that necessary action may be taken to include these electors in the Final Electoral Roll of SIR 2026.â</p> 622<p>February 18: Sanjay Kumar, the Deputy Election Commissioner who holds the electoral roll charge in Delhi, to Khanna: âEROs/AEROs have powers u/s 21/21A to take corrective action. In any case, IT system cannot block necessary action as per the directions of SC. please facilitate the desired action to publish ER as per the decision taken by EROs/AEROs and conveyed to you in these emails.â</p> 623<p>February 21: The final roll was published. The 97 were not on it.</p> 624<div class="custom_read_button alsoread-section"><span class="widget_title">Also Read</span> | <span class="article_title"><a class="click-event-dataid" data-id="Alsoread_editdriven" href="https://indianexpress.com/article/political-pulse/vote-chori-act-of-treason-rahul-gandhi-on-express-investigation-10890323/">âAct of treasonâ: Rahul Gandhi renews âvote choriâ charge after Express report</sp
624an></a></div> 625<h2>Who are the 97, why it’s a big deal for them</h2> 626<p>Sixty-five of the 97 are from Taleigao, the seat that was held by the BJP’s Jennifer Monserrate, who passed away in July this year. The rest are from St Cruz, Cumbarjua, Priol, Margao, Benaulim and Velim assembly seats.</p> 627<p>For a Goan, being off the roll costs more than a vote. Several state schemes use the electoral roll to establish eligibility. The Goa Mediclaim Scheme, which funds super-speciality treatment not available in government hospitals (dialysis, angioplasty, open-heart surgery, transplants, chemotherapy, cochlear implants) is open only to voters of the state.</p> 628<p>When the names did not go in, the electoral officers on the ground told these voters to apply afresh on Form 6, the form for new voters.</p> 629<div id=ai-infographic-editor-content-1><div class="inv-more"> 630 <style> 631 /* REUSABLE TEMPLATE â "More In This Investigation" box. 632 Drop this at the bottom of every part of an investigation series. 633 Palette â Indian Express brand guidelines (sheet 02 â Colours): 634 Primary: IE Red 01 #FF1204 · Black 02 #000000 · White 03 #FFFFFF 635 Secondary (backgrounds only): Dark Blue 02 #282E47 · Soft Grey 04 #F3F3F5 · Beige 05 #F9F7F2 */ 636 .inv-more{ 637 font-family:"Roboto",sans-serif !important; 638 margin-bottom:25px !important; 639 max-width:640px !important; 640 min-width:320px !important; 641 background:#F9F7F2 !important; 642 position:relative !important; 643 overflow:hidden !important; 644 border:1px solid #000000 !important; 645 border-radius:4px !important; 646 padding-top:6px !important; 647 } 648 .inv-more::before{ 649 content:"" !important; position:absolute !important; inset:0 !important; 650 background-image:repeating-linear-gradient(0deg,rgba(0,0,0,0.015) 0px,rgba(0,0,0,0.015) 1px,transparent 1px,transparent 3px) !important; 651 pointer-events:none !important; z-index:0 !important; 652 } 653 .inv-more > *{ position:relative !important; z-index:1 !important; } 654 655 .inv-more .inv-more__header{ 656 padding:13px 16px 10px !important; border-bottom:1px solid #000000 !important; 657 background:#F3F3F5 !important; 658 } 659 .inv-more__eyebrow{ 660 font-size:18.75px !important; font-weight:700 !important; letter-spacing:0.1em !important; 661 color:#000000 !important; text-transform:uppercase !important; 662 font-family:"Courier New",Courier,monospace !important; opacity:1 !important; margin-bottom:3px !important; 663 } 664 .inv-more__title{ 665 font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif !important; font-size:20.6px !important; font-weight:700 !important; 666 color:#000000 !important; opacity:1 !important; text-wrap:pretty !important; 667 } 668 669 .inv-more__list{ padding:6px 16px 4px !important; } 670 .inv-more__entry{ 671 padding:11px 0 !important; border-bottom:1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.12) !important; 672 } 673 .inv-more__entry:last-child{ border-bottom:none !important; } 674 .inv-more__entry-link{ 675 display:block !important; text-decoration:none !important; color:inherit !important; 676 } 677 .inv-more__entry-tag{ 678 font-size:13.1px !important; font-weight:700 !important; letter-spacing:0.08em !important; 679 color:#FF1204 !important; text-transform:uppercase !important; margin-bottom:3px !important; 680 font-family:"Courier New",Courier,monospace !important; opacity:1 !important; 681 } 682 .inv-more__entry-headline{ 683 font-size:17.75px !important; font-weight:700 !important; color:#000000 !important; line-height:1.32 !important; 684 margin-bottom:4px !important; font-family:"Roboto",sans-serif !important; opacity:1 !important; text-wrap:pretty !important; 685 } 686 .inv-more__entry-excerpt{ 687 font-size:15.25px !important; line-height:1.48 !important; color:#000000 !important; font-weight:400 !important; 688 font-family:"Roboto",sans-serif !important; opacity:1 !important; text-wrap:pretty !important; 689 } 690 .inv-more__entry-arrow{ 691 font-size:15.6px !important; color:#FF1204 !important; font-weight:700 !important; margin-top:4px !important; 692 font-family:"Roboto",sans-serif !important; opacity:1 !important; 693 } 694 @media(max-width:480px){ .inv-more{ min-width:auto !important; max-width:100% !important; } } 695 </style> 696 697 <div class="infogenie_more_start"></div> 698 699 <div class="inv-more__header"> 700 <div class="inv-more__eyebrow">â Express investigation â</div> 701 </div> 702 703 <div class="inv-more__list"> 704 705 <div class="inv-more__entry">
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