Old Voter List

Old Voter List is a fuzzy-search tool over India's digitized 2002-era electoral rolls, built one state at a time.

What this is

It's meant as a lookup aid — mainly for SIR (Special Intensive Revision) verification work, where someone needs to find a specific name, relative name, and rough age band on an old roll and confirm a match by hand. It's built entirely on public, already-digitized government data — no CAPTCHA bypass, no private data sources — and it isn't affiliated with the Election Commission or any state CEO office. It's an independent project.

Who built it

This project is built and maintained by AvaDhuri. AvaDhuri's longer-term work starts from a simple bet: as AI gets cheaper and more capable, correctness — not intelligence — becomes the scarce thing. We're building a language that lets AI systems work with data in ways that can be checked and audited, not just trusted. This tool applies that same instinct — build something verifiable — to a real, public dataset. If that's a problem space you think about too, subscribe to our updates, or read more in our writings.

The data pipeline and matching logic behind this are open source — contributions welcome.

Contributors: Nishant.

What's next

Karnataka is complete — all 224 constituencies. West Bengal and Haryana are partial for now (a Kolkata subset, and a demo spread of districts, respectively) — see the states & roadmap page for exact coverage. Other states are added on request, as resources permit.

Versions

Search Engine: v3 (43657f8)
Data Pipeline: 3265ddc
Data Version: TBD

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