Chennai, Dec. 17 -- As many as 103,000 names have not appeared in the revised Puducherry voter list, as per the draft electoral rolls published on Tuesday by the district election officer A Kulothungan. The total number of voters in Puducherry now stands at 918,000 at the end of the enumeration phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), down from 1,021,000 as of October 27. While more than 80,000 have shifted permanently, as many as 20,798 were dead.

"No name can be deleted from the draft roll published on 16th December without notice and a speaking order by the ERO/AERO. Any aggrieved elector may appeal to the District Magistrate and thereafter to the chief electoral officer under Section 24 of the RP Act, 1950," said the chief elec...