Over three lakh new voters in J-K

Over three lakh new voters were added during the ongoing special summary revision (SSR) in Jammu and Kashmir, election authorities said Wednesday.

"During the ongoing SSR of photo electoral rolls, with respect to January 1 as the qualifying date, 3,07,984 new voters were added, which is highest as compared to the last four years additions," the officials said.

Besides, they said, 1,25,931 voters were deleted from the roll and 94,659 corrections and modifications were made in the particulars of electors.

In addition, as many as 9,23,654 demographically similar entries were also removed from the rolls and 1,687 logical errors were corrected in the ongoing SSR-2019, the officials said.

To maintain the correctness of the rolls, they said, the multiple entries, duplicates, dead and permanently shifted entries were also removed from the roll.

Lauding the performance of district election officers (DEOs) for updation of electoral rolls during the SSR, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Shailendra .