What made it harder to stay on the roll
What an elector had to do, or get past, to stay on the roll or get back on it. Each point is taken from an order, a court record or an official figure, and links to it.
The rules, as they changed
Every order, letter and judgment that changed how the revision worked, in date order. Choose who issued it, or which part of the revision, to narrow the list.
Form 6, Form 7 and the declaration
Form 6 is how a new elector, or anyone left off, asks to be put on the roll. Form 7 is how anyone objects to a name already on it. During the revision the Commission added a declaration to Form 6 and changed it twice. This is what each version asked for, and what the orders and the Supreme Court said about the forms.
Claims and objections after the draft, state by state
Names removed when the draft roll was published, set against names added and removed between the draft and the final roll. Additions include people enrolling for the first time, so they are the most that could have been put back, and fewer than that in fact.
Notices: the no-mapping list and the discrepancy list
Electors who stayed on the draft roll could still be sent a notice to prove their entry. Two lists produced the notices. No mapping means the elector could not be linked to the roll of the last intensive revision, 2002 to 2006 depending on the state. The logical discrepancy list is the Commission's list of mismatches in names, ages and family links, such as a parent fewer than 15 years older than the child. An elector can be on both lists. The chart sets each state's notices against its draft roll. Dark dots rest on a Chief Electoral Officer's or a court's document, light ones on a press report quoting the Chief Electoral Officer.
Each state's dates, as set and as moved
One row for each state or union territory. The top line in a row is the first schedule the Election Commission set, and each line below it is a later change, with the last one drawn darkest. Hover over or tap a line for its dates and the document that set them.
Bihar, the first phase
Phase II, twelve states and union territories
Phase III, the rest of the country
Inside the Commission, as The Indian Express reported it
Other reporting and analysis of the revision, and how it compares with this site's figures, is on Further Reading and Viewing.
Reported in the press, with no document to confirm it
What news organisations reported about the revision that no order or official figure on this page confirms. Each entry says who reported it and when, gives the Commission's response where the report carried one, and links to the report. These are reports, and the site does not vouch for them.
What we could not verify
These documents could not be found or opened, so what they say is left out of the sections that rest on documents.
The timeline and every state's dates can be downloaded as process_timeline.csv and process_schedules.csv, each row with the link to its document.
Checked against the documents on . If you have one of these documents, write to info@pinpointventures.in.