Goa Chief Electoral Officer Sanjay Goyal has acknowledged a lapse regarding 97 eligible voters whose names were incorrectly deleted from the electoral rolls. According to the election authority, technical errors were initially identified during the registration process, but a thorough document verification confirmed that these 97 individuals were indeed genuine voters. However, because the Election Commission's software lacks a feature to directly restore or re-add previously deleted entries, officials state that filing a fresh Form 6 to register as new voters remains the only technical workaround available to them.

The directive has triggered strong opposition from affected citizens, notably Paresh Salgaocar, whose family lost six votes due to the deletion. Refusing to re-register as new voters on the grounds that they have consistently exercised their franchise in past elections, Salgaocar has challenged the decision by approaching the High Court. The issue highlights a growing conflict between administrative software constraints and the legal rights of long-standing voters.