EC gives one more opportunity to voters marked absent, shifted, deceased. (Representational image)

Voters left out of draft electoral rolls after being marked absent, shifted, dead or duplicate will get another chance to seek inclusion in seven states, the Election Commission said on Friday, reopening the process just over a week after the Supreme Court suggested such a step.

The decision applies to Delhi, Maharashtra, Haryana, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Telangana and Nagaland, where final electoral rolls under the ongoing Special Intensive Revision, or SIR, have yet to be published.

The Election Commission said electors who had been issued enumeration forms but whose names were excluded from the draft rolls after being marked ASDD — absent, shifted, dead or duplicate — would be allowed to submit the forms again to seek inclusion in the final rolls.

Until now, such electors had been encouraged to submit Form 6, the statutory form used for fresh enrolment.…