Repoll likely at month-end
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, February 15 2012:
Given the sheer large number of mismatched photographs detected during comparison of voters' photographs taken on polling day and their EPIC photographs, it is likely that some polling stations would go to re-poll in the last part of February.
The same task of photo comparison is being done by District Election Officers and Returning Officers for all polling stations of the State.
Photo comparison report for 177 polling stations against which 35 complaints were lodged has been already submitted to the ECI.
In the meantime, the ECI has already asked the State election authority to submit photo comparison reports by tomorrow of the polling stations which were not included in the photo comparison exercise done under supervision of the ECI-appointed special observers.
Though repoll is most likely in some polling stations by the end of the current month, the ECI has not decided on the number of polling stations which would go to repoll as the Commission has not yet received the complete report of the photo comparison work.