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CHENNAI: With the polling day in Tamil Nadu scheduled mid-summer, the Election Commission has extended the voting time across the state by an hour. Once the nominations end, all observers will be deployed in the 39 constituencies in Tamil Nadu,” he said. “Three expenditure observers have arrived in Tamil Nadu and they have been sent to Erode and Tenkasi constituencies. The EC has filed 16 FIRs relating to cash seizures.So far 2,111 people have been taken into preventive custody. In Madurai, where there has been a demand from political parties to re-schedule the polls in view of 'Chithirai' festival , voting has been extended by two more hours..