Petition filed by Shanimol seeking steps to curb double voting
The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Saturday informed the Kerala High Court that webcasting of the polling process has been arranged in 46% of the booths in the Aroor Assembly constituency to check double voting and other electoral malpractices.
The court made the submission when a writ petition filed by Shanimol Usman, the UDF candidate in the constituency, seeking a directive to webcast the polling process as many as 39 booths with multiple entries identified by her came up for hearing.
Justice N. Nagaresh, however, directed the ECI to consider whether the polling booths identified by the petitioner were figuring in the list of 46% polling booths and if those booths were not included in the 46% booths, the ECI should consider the feasibility of webcasting or videographing the election process in such polling booths.