Till 1 p.m. on Thursday, 28.65% per cent of the electorate turned up to vote in the Bengaluru Central Parliamentary constituency. A few voters, after casting their votes, talked to the NewsNet team about the issues which they felt were the most pertinent in this election season. Prateek Desai, a resident of Malleshwaram said, ‘I […]
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Up until 1 p.m on Thursday, 29.69 percent of the electorate turned up to vote in the Bengaluru North Parliamentary constituency. A few voters, after casting their votes, talked to the NewsNet team about issues which they felt were the most pertinent in this election season. Priyanka, a 19-year-old first time voter from Bengaluru North […]
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College students from BMS Institute and St. Joseph’s work towards conducting a peaceful election in Shantinagar. This is being done under the supervision of Mirza Mohammed Ismail, central division warden in Karnataka Civil Corp. Around 500 students have participated in the program and they go about different polling booths to check if the elections are […]
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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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Polling booths in the city are buzzing with first time voters. Youngsters are excited about their first vote. While some of them are happy about their the online facilities by the eElection Commission, a few of the first time voters’ complain about their names missing in the voters list.
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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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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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