Repolling to be held in three city booths today

Repolling will be held in three booths of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation on Tuesday as clashes were reported from one of the booths and the other two complained of erroneous voting machines.

According to State Election Commissioner Meera Pandey,polling will take place between 7 am and 3 pm in booth number 13A at Jatiya Shishu Vidyala in ward 94,booth number 15A at Deshabandhu Valika Vidyalaya in ward 83 and booth number 21 at Kendua Mahendranath Girls High School in Ward 101.

In booth number 21 of ward 101,agitated voters had broken the Electronic Voting Machine after a security personnel from Tripura shot at a voter on Sunday. The reason for the incident is yet to be ascertained. The machine was damaged to such an extent that its memory could not be retrieved.

As for booth numbers 13A and 15A of ward numbers 94 and 83,the EVMs started malfunctioning roughly two hours after the voting procedure began. Since the machines were not registering the actual number of votes being cast,voting could not be continued in these two booths.

In numbers
* Kolkata registered the lowest votes cast (65 per cent) among 1,792 wards.
* West Midnapore registered a high percentage of votes cast with places like Chandrakona and Ramjibanpur Municipalities registering 92.7 and 91 per cent votes respectively. Polling percentage in places like Naihar and Baduria in Bankura were also quite high.
* The percentage of women voters has risen,as almost 48 per cent women voted across the state.
* Around 230 people were arrested on Sunday from Kolkata and different districts of the state.
* Counting will begin from 8 am on June 2. For KMC,the counting will be held in 15 centres,each located in one of the 15 boroughs.

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