India, Jan. 22 -- LUCKNOW Hearings on the notices served to voters under the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls commenced in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday.

The Election Commission of India (ECI) had sent notices to around 3.26 crore voters in the state whose names were enrolled among the 12.55 crore voters on the draft electoral roll published on January 6.

Among the 3.26 crore voters, 1.4 crore are those whose names were not found in the 2003 voters' list during the mapping with the 2025 voters' list while 2.22 crore voters are those in whose enumeration forms 'logical discrepancies' have been detected through a software used by the ECI to identify potential errors in voter data, said UP CEO Navdeep Rinwa.

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