Almost 87 polling reported at the end of repoll

Jaipur | Tuesday | 11th December, 2018

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It led to violation of procedure of poll, leading to the repoll,” said the district returning officer. “He also took out the VVPAT slips and put it in a separate envelope. This resulted in zero voting. Jaipur: Heavy polling of 86.92% was reported at the end of repoll to booth number 163 at Karanpur assembly segment in Ganganagar district on Monday.The state electoral officer ordered repoll after the presiding officer “by mistake” cleared the machine after 17 actual votes were cast to delete the votes cast during mock trial on the polling day on December 7.The repolling was held between 8am and 5pm at the polling station booth number 163 located at 18-B, a government primary school in Ganganagar district.The presiding officer pressed the clear button by mistake and the 17 actual votes which were cast also got cleared..