India, Dec. 18 -- Of the 1.5 million 'dubaar' or suspected 'duplicate' voters across the 29 municipal corporations that will go to the polls on January 15, over 1.10 million have been identified in Mumbai while the remaining 0.4 million are in the other 28 corporations. The data has raised eyebrows and also highlights that the de-duplication work in the 28 corporations was not done as effectively as it was by the BMC.

The high number of identified 'duplicate' voters in Mumbai is attributed not only to the substantial floating population but also to other factors, including additional efforts put in by the BMC, the wide spectrum of machinery available to it and the greater number of wards. Simply put, the greater the number of wards and v...