India, Dec. 29 -- Many people in West Bengal could not be linked to the base 2002 voter roll during the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) due to glitches in the app used for the contentious exercise, the election commission has admitted, adding that the number of these so-called unmapped voters could dip as a result.

The number of people who could not show either their own name or the names of their parents or grandparents in the rolls of 2002 - the last time the SIR was conducted in Bengal - stood at 3.1 million when the draft voter roll was published on December 16. To be sure, this number is separate from the 5.82 million names that have been dropped from the draft roll already.

The 3.1 million people were called for hearings ...