The Election Commission has collaborated with IIT Madras to work on a new technology that will allow electors to vote from far away cities without going to the designated polling station of their respective constituencies, a senior poll panel official has said.
110-year-old Kalitara Mandal, the oldest voter of Delhi, cast her vote for Delhi Elections 2020 at SDMC Primary School, Chittaranjan Park in Greater Kailash assembly constituency. She was given pick up and drop facility.
As voting began on Saturday for the 70-member Delhi Assembly, long queues of voters, including first-time voters, were seen at Shaheen Bagh, the site of the anti-CAA protests.672 candidates are contesting the Delhi polls.
Congress candidate from Delhi's Gandhinagar Assembly seat, Arvinder Singh Lovely voted in the East Azad Nagar polling booth on Saturday. The former Congress Minister said: "Delhi is voting on development which has come to a standstill as no work has been done.
Preparation for Delhi Assembly elections is underway. Voting for 70 Assembly constituencies will begin early morning on February 08. Security has been increased at the polling booths.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday cast his vote at a polling booth in Civil Lines along with his family.
Union Home Minister and former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Amit Shah has instructed all party cadres to ensure that they cast their votes by 10 a.m
An estimated 62.54 per cent of over 47 lakh electorate cast their votes in the fourth phase of Jharkhand Assembly elections to 15 seats on Monday, Election Commission (EC) officials said.
Polling concluded in 18 of the 20 Assembly seats amid a few incidents of violence in the second phase of the Jharkhand Assembly polls.
Campaigning in Maharashtra and Haryana for the Assembly elections, 2019 concluded on Saturday. The Model Code of Conduct came into force on September 21 after the Election Commission of India announced Assembly election dates.
The voting process initially was to end at 3:00 p.m. local time but extended for two more hours to enable the voters to use their franchise, head of the election commission Hawa Alam Nuristani told reporters.
According to the ministry, the initiatives have been taken in response to requests from innovative technology companies and startups.
The voter turnout for the just-concluded Lok Sabha polls was the highest ever at 67.11 per cent across 542 constituencies. Polling was cancelled in Vellore.
This is the first time that transgenders voted under the category since the Supreme Court had declared them as "third gender" in 2014.
"The timings are from 7 am to 6 pm. People can come in the morning to cast their votes. They (EC) will face logistical problem (if timings are advanced)," the bench told advocate Mohammad Nizamuddin Pasha who had filed the petition.
President Ram Nath Kovind, Congress president Rahul Gandhi, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj were among those who cast their vote.
"Nobody has turned up to vote till now," ANI quoted polling official of booth number 41 as saying on Thursday which also happens to be the day when polling for the second phase of Lok Sabha elections 2019 is underway.
Nearly 15.8 crore voters will seal the fate of 1600-odd candidates in 95 Lok Sabha constituencies across 11 states and one Union Territory.
Residents of Digothi and Lodal villages in Tehri district did not vote saying they did not get a road and other facilities.
Noida, which is part of the Gautam Buddh Nagar parliamentary constituency, will go for polls on April 11 in the first of the seven-phased Lok Sabha election.
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