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Dehradun: Uttarakhand Police has identified 350 polling centres as ‘shadow areas’ which means they have poor or no mobile connectivity. A request has been made for 1,000 more static sets and 900 mobile handsets.” “We have 1,800 static sets and 2,500 handheld sets. Cops deployed on poll duty in these areas will use wireless to communicate messages to the district election office. In addition, the Election Commission (EC) has identified nine locations under ‘expenditure sensitive’ pockets..