How this list was made
Every piece below was opened and read by one researcher and then by a second, who checked its title, its outlet, its date and the one line that says what it shows. Where the second reading found an error, the corrected version is the one shown. A piece is listed because it adds evidence or argument about the revision. Listing it does not mean the site agrees with it, and the pieces disagree with each other in places.
The Indian Express special issue
Election Commission of India: lapses and challenges, The Indian Express, October 2026. The paper's investigation in full, which it released free. PDF, 80 pages. It is the paper's work and outside this site's licence. Inside the Commission sets out its account by date.
Did the deletions change West Bengal's result?
Five pieces below ask this question, and they reach different answers because they test different things. One sets deletions against each seat's margin, one against the swing between elections, one assumes how the removed would have voted, and one recomputes the result with no revision at all. A count of deletions larger than a margin shows that the deletions could have decided a seat. It cannot show that they did. Read them side by side.
What others say, set beside this site's figures
This site counts what the Election Commission and the Chief Electoral Officers published, and it says no more than those counts allow. Several of the people below go further. Some use data the site does not hold, such as the outcomes of West Bengal's adjudication seat by seat, which the Sabar Institute compiled from the named lists. Some compare groups of seats without allowing for the other ways those seats differ. Some draw a conclusion about purpose from a pattern in the figures, which the lists cannot show.
Each panel quotes the person's own words and says what the quotation rests on. It then sets the site's own figures beside it and says where those figures stop. A second reader checked every quotation against its source. Where a person reaches further than the site, the site's figures cannot settle the question either way, and the panel says so.