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When the Count Becomes the Problem It Was Meant to Solve

With SIR draft rolls showing dramatic reductions - Delhi down by nearly 48 lakh voters, Maharashtra by more than 2 crore - and a documented historical precedent in the Assam NRC's exclusion of 19.06 lakh people in 2019, the essay reopens a foundational question about whether administrative machinery built to clean a register can be trusted to distinguish a genuinely ineligible entry from a citizen the process simply failed…