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Chennai: Even if you haven’t got voter slips or your voter ID card, you can vote as long as your name is on the electoral rolls. This was the promise of Tamil Nadu’s chief electoral officer Satyabrata Sahoo on election eve.
Polling is open for 12 hours from 7am on Tuesday, with the last hour reserved for Covid patients. But everyone will have to wear masks to the polling booths, where their temperature will be taken before they are given a glove to go in and press the button of their choice on the EVM. Given that more polling stations were added as auxiliary due to Covid-19, the voters could check their booths on the commission’s NVSP portal or helpline 1950 with STD code.
The flying squad teams and special surveillance teams and other enforcement agencies had seized cash and other materials worth Rs 433.92 crore until Monday
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu votes on Tuesday amid complaints of voter bribery from both AIADMK and DMK and seizures of more than Rs 230 crore in cash, besides a protest demonstration in one village demanding cash.
Chief electoral officer Satyabrata Sahoo said his office has not received any communication from the Election Commission of India (ECI) on rescinding polls, following complaints of distribution of cash to voters by parties, in any assembly segment.
Earlier in the day, the ruling AIADMK complained to the chief electoral officer seeking countermanding of polls in five assembly segments, where DMK leaders are contesting. These were Kolathur (DMK president M K Stalin), Chepauk – Triplicane (Udhayanidhi Stalin), Katpadi (general secretary S Durai Murugan), Trichy West (principal secretary K N Nehru) and Tiruvannamalai (former