On 13 October, the Election Commission released the final electoral roll for Goa, which omitted 97 eligible voters, igniting a controversy over the lack of a rollback feature in the ECI‑Net software. The Chief Electoral Officer had written eight letters in seven days to reverse the deletions, but the central office had no mechanism to undo them.
Karnataka added another wrinkle when a BJP MLA, Basanagouda Patil Yatnal, was charged with filing forged death certificates to delete eight voters, including 50‑year‑old Abdulrajaq Moulasab Bagawan, a vegetable vendor. Yatnal denies wrongdoing and plans to challenge the FIR in court.
In Maharashtra, a draft roll mistakenly listed 2.7 lakh voters as aged 101–150, with 1900 as their birth year, a flaw that affected three Nashik constituencies. The chief electoral officer alerted the Commission on 2 September, but the error was not corrected until 6 October after repeated follow‑ups.
Delhi's draft roll prompted 33 lakh notices to voters, while West Bengal saw 22.2 lakh appeals against deletions amid a Supreme Court inquiry into the logic of these notices. The Court has demanded a response from the Commission on the basis for issuing notices over so‑called logical discrepancies.
An investigation by The Indian Express revealed that Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi raised 14 formal objections in 10 months over voter additions, deletions and data control, prompting questions about internal discord. The Commission maintains that such differences are normal and decisions were unanimous, but critics argue that the lack of a rollback feature and frequent objections signal deeper systemic issues. The Commission has pledged to review the deletions and restore the missing names following the Chief Electoral Officer's appeal, with a technical audit slated for 28 October.