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  EC, IIT-Madras join hands to develop new technology for voting

  India | February 16, 2020 16:44 IST

  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.

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  Watch: Delhi's oldest voter exercises her franchise

  Elections | February 08, 2020 16:19 IST

  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.

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  First-timers vote at Shaheen Bagh

  Elections | February 08, 2020 14:32 IST

  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.

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  Ex-minister Lovely says Delhi is voting on development

  Elections | February 08, 2020 15:06 IST

  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.

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  Delhi polls: Preparation for voting underway

  Politics | February 08, 2020 11:52 IST

  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.

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  Arvind Kejriwal & family cast vote

  Elections | February 08, 2020 11:01 IST

  Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday cast his vote at a polling booth in Civil Lines along with his family.

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  Amit Shah wants BJP workers to ensure that votes are cast by 10 am

  National | February 07, 2020 13:58 IST

  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

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  62.54% polling recorded in fourth phase of Jharkhand elections

  December 16, 2019 20:22 IST

  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. 

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  Jharkhand Assembly polls: Voting ends in 18 seats amid violence

  December 08, 2019 0:01 IST

  Polling concluded in 18 of the 20 Assembly seats amid a few incidents of violence in the second phase of the Jharkhand Assembly polls.

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  BJP, Congress in close contest as Maharashtra, Haryana vote today

  Elections | October 21, 2019 7:41 IST

  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.

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  Voting ends in Afghanistan polls marred by violence

  World | September 28, 2019 21:25 IST

  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.  

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  No plan to implement compulsory voting: Government

  India | July 11, 2019 18:40 IST

  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.  

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  Out of 693 transgender voters in Delhi, only 23.09 per cent of them exercised their franchise

  India | May 19, 2019 17:36 IST

  This is the first time that transgenders voted under the category since the Supreme Court had declared them as "third gender" in 2014.

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  Lok Sabha elections: Supreme Court dismisses plea to advance poll timing due to Ramzan

  May 13, 2019 14:37 IST

  "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.

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  Delhi records 34.48 percent voting till 1 PM

  May 12, 2019 15:26 IST

  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.

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  Lok Sabha elections 2019 phase 2 polling | This village refrains from voting: Here’s why

  April 18, 2019 14:30 IST

  "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.

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  Lok Sabha Elections: Stage set for Phase 2 polling in 12 states, several key leaders in fray

  April 17, 2019 23:07 IST

  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.

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  No development, no vote, say villagers in Uttarakhand

  April 11, 2019 18:15 IST

  Residents of Digothi and Lodal villages in Tehri district did not vote saying they did not get a road and other facilities.  

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  75 per cent voter turnout in Mizoram: Deputy EC Sudip Jain

  November 28, 2018 23:57 IST

  The state had an electorate of 7,70,395, which included 3,94,897 female voters. There were 209 candidates, 15 of them women, in the fray.

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  74.61 pc polling in Madhya Pradesh; 1,145 EVMs replaced

  November 28, 2018 21:43 IST

  Earlier in the day, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, BJP candidate from Budhni seat, and his wife Sadhana Singh cast their votes at his native village Jait, a part of his Assembly constituency.