“Yes, I have sent the letter. We are yet to hear from the ECI about the proposal,” Maharashtra CEO S Chockalingam said.

As Maharashtra struggles to complete the pre-Special Intensive Revision (SIR) mapping exercise – a time-consuming process that requires Booth Level Officers or BLOs to match every current voter’s name against a 24-year-old electoral roll – the state’s Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) has written to the Election Commission of India (ECI) seeking permission to allow voters to map themselves online, on the lines of the self-enumeration option introduced for the national census.

At present, the pre-SIR activity involves BLOs comparing the 2002 electoral roll with the current one. Every voter’s name must be traceable to the 2002 list to pass scrutiny.…