9 lakh names cut from TN voter list

Naduchief electoral officer Satyabrata Sahoo said that 9,11,820 deletions had been made in the voters list, which was released recently.

Sahoo, in a statement, said the deletions were due to shifting of voters from one place to another, death and duplication of entries. As on Wednesday, the total electors in the state stood at 6,12,36,696 people. Of them, 3,11,09,813 are Women voters, 3,01,18,904 are men and 7,979 are third gender.

He said 1,23,064 people were newly included on the electoral rolls. While 51,295 voters changed their addresses, entries were corrected in the case of 2,60,103 electors.