ECI to decide on number of booths to go in for another repoll
CEC has given green signal : Dr Nara
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, February 28 2012:
Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi has agreed to hold re-poll in polling stations of the State where maximum proxy votings were detected as well as those polling stations against which complaints of election malpractices were lodged in time, claimed CPI Manipur State Council secretary Dr M Nara who is currently putting up at New Delhi.
Dr M Nara who was part of the all political parties team barring Congress party informed that the CEC has assured them that re-poll will be held in all polling stations where maximum proxy votes and mismatching photographs were detected together with polling stations against which complaints about election malpractices were filed in time.
Fresh re-poll would also cover polling stations which recorded abnormal poll percentage of more than 90 per cent as well as polling stations where polling agents of a single candidate were present while agents of other parties/candidates were denied entry, conveyed Dr Nara quoting SY Quraishi.
However, the Commission would decide how many polling stations, out of the 523 polling stations where election malpractices were detected, would go to re-poll.
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The Commission would also announce the date of re-poll in the next couple of days.
Unlike the previous rounds of voting, one ECI-appointed observer or micro observer would be stationed in each of the polling stations which would go to re-poll so as to prevent any form of election malpractices or illegal activities this time.
The CEC has also assured to seize and cancel all the postal ballot papers issued in illegal manner, Dr Nara conveyed.
On being presented a detailed account of the malpractices and illegal activities carried out on the day of polling, SY Quraishi lauded the joint team of the ten political parties.
The CEC also assured the team that necessary procedures would be initiated to prosecute and penalise all those voters who have been identified for casting votes repeatedly, Dr Nara added.