Kerala now has over 20 lakh voters listed as dead, untraceable, or permanently shifted, according to the latest Election Commission update. The total number is 20,75,381 under the 'uncollectables' category. This includes 6,11,559 dead voters, 5,66,182 untraceable, 7,39,205 permanently shifted or absent, 1,12,569 duplicate entries, and 45,866 others. This is a sharp rise from around 8.80 lakh just a week ago. Chief Electoral Officer Rathan U. Kelkar said the EC has extended Kerala’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) schedule by a week, now running till December 18. This extra time will help trace missing voters and add them back to the rolls. Draft rolls will be published on December 23, followed by claims and objections from December 23 to January 22, 2026. The final rolls will release on February 21, 2026. Kelkar highlighted the importance of meetings between booth-level officers (BLO) and booth-level agents (BLA) from political parties, with 6,475 such meetings held so far across Kerala. These meetings aid in voter verification. When a BLO confirms a voter is dead, they are marked as such. If permanently shifted, they get that status. Duplicate entries get classified accordingly. Voters refusing forms are marked under 'Others.' Political parties demanded an online meeting with overseas voter groups. The CEO offered to host it after NoRKA failed to arrange the session. The election process in Kerala moves forward amid these efforts to clean the voter list.