India, Dec. 28 -- The number of unmapped voters in the draft electoral roll of West Bengal is likely to drop as many voters could not be linked with the 2002 electoral roll due to some technical glitches, Election Commission (EC) officials have said.

"It has been reported from the districts that due to incomplete conversion of PDF of 2002 electoral roll data (last SIR in West Bengal) to CSV, linkage could not be fetched in BLO app in respect of many electors. These electors are marked unmapped, though they have either self or progeny linkage with the hard copy of 2002 electoral roll as authenticated and provided by the district election officer (DEOs) and published in the website of chief electoral officer of West Bengal (WB CEO)," state...