ATATD irked over photo mismatch
Source: Hueiyen News Service / Daniel Kamei
Tamenglong, February 16 2012:
All Tribal Association Tamenglong District (ATATD)has decried negligence of District Election Officer who took up the task of assigning Computer operator to upload the photos of the 10th Manipur Legislative Assembly Election.
In a statement, the Association asserted the photos taken on the polling day were kept randomly and not in serial.
The statement of ATATD signed by its information Secretary Kaigaibou observed that misplaced photos have caused confusion to the ECI and Special Observers at the time of photo comparison.
'This came to light when an elector Sl.84 House No 5 under 52/11 polling station who cast his vote went for photo comparison along with his candidate in the presence of the election observers.
Much to their surprise, the photo of the male elector was found to have been replaced by that of a female elector' .
When investigate, many more cases of mismatch photos were detected by the Central observers, the statement pointed out.
The statement clarified that ATATD is not in favour of any particular political party but against any individual or officials involved in tempering or mishandling the electoral process to curtail the rights of the people.