After VVPAT machines developed snags during Monday’s Lok Sabha bypolls, repolling is underway today in five booths of Shamli and 68 booths of Saharanpur falling under the Kairana parliamentary constituency, Maharashtra’s Bhandara-Gondia and one polling station in Nagaland.
Voting began at a slow pace in Kairana – being viewed seen as a testing ground for opposition unity against the state’s ruling BJP – The polling was so far peaceful, an Election Commission (EC) official was quoted as saying by news agency IANS.
But voters were faced with minor inconvenience at some booths. Polling was resumed in Bapu village following a brief interruption due to a snag in the electronic voting machine. In Sanga Kheda, a polling officer was found possessing a mobile phone inside a booth.
