LUCKNOW, Jan. 15 -- Out of the 27.94 lakh total voters whose names appeared in the draft electoral rolls in Lucknow district, nearly 4.78 lakh will be served notices under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, requiring them to produce documentary evidence to prove their eligibility, officials said on Wednesday. This process will begin on Thursday.

Across UP, the EC will issue notices to 10.4 million (1.04 crore) voters whose names could not be matched or linked during the mapping exercise with the voter list of the last SIR conducted in 2003. These names were provisionally included in the draft rolls, UP chief electoral officer Navdeep Rinwa had said. The final electoral list will be published on March 6.

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