More than 11,000 voters enrolled in the electoral rolls of the East Tripura parliamentary constituency have exercised their franchise through various special voting procedures ahead of the poll day, a senior official said.
They are among the 13.96 lakh eligible voters who are supposed to cast their votes in the second phase of the general elections to Lok Sabha scheduled on April 26. The vocal campaign for the politically crucial ST reserved constituency came to an end on Wednesday, Chief Electoral Officer Puneet Agarwal informed.
Sharing details of the poll preparedness, Agarwal said, “On 17 and 18 home voting for the Persons with disabilities and 85 plus voters was conducted. In this process, 4,515 voters have cast their valuable votes. Apart from that, 165 people voted under the essential services category and 6,379 voters cast their votes through postal ballots. In all of these cases, more than 94 per cent casting is achieved.”
“As far as the service voters are concerned who are employed with armed forces, 353 votes have been received by post. The total ballots issued under this category stand at 4,682. The rest of the ballots would be received through postal services till the date of counting. Only those many such votes would be judged valid that are received before 8 am on the day of counting,” he added
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