India, Feb. 4 -- MUMBAI The state branch of the Election Commission of India (ECI) has kicked off the pre-Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll by mapping the present voter list with that of 2002, when the last SIR was conducted. Through this exercise, the EC expects at least 10% or around 10 million voters to be weeded out from the existing electoral roll of 99.2 million for being duplicate entries or deaths.

The SIR is expected to be held in Maharashtra after the annual school and board exams in April-May. This was indicated by the EC to the office of the chief electoral officer (CEO) recently.

The CEO's office has begun the process of mapping the electoral rolls and expects over 85-90% of the existing voters or their...