Puducherry, April 10 -- The Special Intensified Revision (SIR) of voters list is said to be the main reason for Puducherry registering a record all time high poll percentage of 91.23 since Independence.
Sources on Friday said the names of the dead voters, those enrolled in more than one constituency, were removed to prepared the final voters list.
As many as 20,798 dead voters, 80,645, who have migrated to other places, and 2,024 people having votes in more than one constituency, totalling 1,03,467 voters were removed from the final list of electoral rolls following the SIR exercise.
The total number of voters which stood at 10,21,578 in the old list came down to 9,18,111.
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