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Votes volition beryllium polled from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. connected Tuesday for Phase-I of the section assemblage elections covering wards successful 595 section bodies crossed Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Kottayam, Idukki, Alappuzha, and Ernakulam districts.
Voters tin usage Electors Photo Identity Card (EPIC) issued by the Election Commission of India, elector gaffe issued by the State Election Commission, passport, driving licence, Aadhaar card, PAN card, photo-affixed SSLC certificate/book, and photo-affixed passbook issued by nationalised banks wrong six months of the elections.
In all, 11,168 wards successful 595 section bodies volition spot elections connected Tuesday. Across the 7 districts, 1,32,83,789 voters are eligible to formed their votes successful this phase. This includes 70,32,444 pistillate voters, 62,51,219 antheral voters and 126 transgender voters. There are 456 overseas electors successful this phase. There are 36,630 candidates, including 19,573 women, 17.056 men and 1 transgender candidate.
State Election Commissioner A. Shajahan requested voters to travel procedures for creaseless behaviour of the exercise. Once a elector enters the polling station, the polling serviceman volition analyse the recognition papers and introduction successful the electoral roll. The 2nd polling serviceman volition past use the ink connected the digit of the voter, and contented the voting slip.
The elector hands implicit the gaffe to the serviceman successful complaint of the physics voting instrumentality (EVM). The second past prepares the ballot portion by pressing the fastener connected the power unit. The greenish airy connected the apical near of the ballot portion indicates that it is acceptable for voting. Once the elector presses the fastener against the preferred candidate, a agelong beep volition beryllium heard, indicating that the process has been completed.
In the corporations and municipalities, each elector has a azygous vote. In the three-tier panchayat, each elector has 3 votes — 1 each for grama, block, and territory panchayats.
Unlike the Assembly and Lok Sabha elections conducted by the EC, ballot units utilized successful the section assemblage elections bash not person the enactment for ‘NOTA’ (None of the Above). Voter verifiable insubstantial audit trails (VVPAT) besides volition not beryllium used, the State Election Commission said.
Although the polling clip ends astatine 6 p.m., each voters contiguous astatine the polling presumption astatine 6 p.m. volition get a accidental to vote.
