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EC Clarifies Rules as Bihar Voter Roll Drive Starts Today

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June 29, 2025

The Election Commission made crucial clarifications — with some rules eased — regarding its controversial "special intensive" voter verification drive in Bihar, allowing residents to submit forms based on self-declaration without documentary proof at the draft stage, as it sought to navigate massive logistical challenges and quell criticism that the exercise could lead to mass disenfranchisement.

- Abhishek Angad and Anirban Guha Roy

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