Pink booths, also known as Sakhi Booths were installed at CV Raman Nagar. The set up for women is not being utilized properly because of lack of awareness. Men can also be seen casting their votes at pink booths. The idea of these booths is to increase the female voters’ turnout but it’s being used […]
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By Subhana Sheikh & Praveena Around 500 people’s names have been deleted from the voters’ list at the polling station in Wisdom International School in BTM Layout 1st Stage, Ward no. 171. The ward expects more than 66,000 voters to turn up. “People complain that their names have been omitted and that this isn’t the […]
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The polling for second phase of Lok Sabha 2019 elections started in 14 constituencies of Karnataka. At some of the polling booths, the EVM’s stopped working. Two EVMs stopped working at Shree Rajarajeshwari Vidyashala polling booth in Rajarajeshwari constituency. Srinidhi S, a voter, said, “I am a first time voter and I came here to […]
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Party workers campaigning at Mahalaxmi Layout, Bangalore North, are persuading voters to vote for their candidates. One party worker asked our reporters to press the second button on the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM), after assuming that they were citizens going in to cast their vote. In a flagrant violation of the Election Commission’s directive, canvassing […]
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Long queues and lack of facilities at polling booths have not affected first time voters from casting their vote, despite Election Commission’s recent decision to provide special facilities for differently-abled voters at polling booths. At polling station 323 located in the Mount Carmel English School, Raja Rajeshwari Nagar, people had to do with mediocre amenities, […]
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Commuters got into arguments with the traffic police after traffic was halted for 20 minutes on Mysore Road in Bidadi. Police stopped the vehicles to facilitate the movement of CM Kumaraswamy’s convoy, when he arrived to vote in Ramanagara.
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IIJNM Team People who have been voting for decades are finding their names missing from the electoral rolls in the second phase of polling being conducted today. They complained that they have been voting for years in the same locality but their names have been omitted from the list, this time around. They checked their […]
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Disabled people are being helped by volunteers of different NGOs across polling booths in the city. The volunteers are helping the disabled by providing them with wheel chairs and assisting them in casting their vote. They are also being provided with auto transport till the main road. Systematic Voters’ Education and Electoral Participation (SVEEP) is […]
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Second Round of polling on 14 Parliamentary seats in Karnataka begins tomorrow. Voting for 14 Lok Sabha Constituencies in Karnataka, with 1,621 candidates in the fray, will begin at 6 am on April 18 across half of the 28 Parliamentary constituencies. The seats going to polls on Thursday in Karnataka are Hassan, Chamarajanagar, Udupi Chikmagalur, […]
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