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Tamil Nadu: Smooth polling across Kovai region

COIMBATORE/ERODE/NILGIRIS : The voting for the Lok Sabha election was by and large peaceful in the Coimbatore region, barring a few snags reported in some polling stations. Coimbatore district collector Kranthi Kumar Pati told reporters that there were delays in a few polling stations and that they were rectified by engineers. Speaking to reporters, Erode Returning Officer Raja Gopal Sunkara said, “In all 3,376 ballot units, 1688 control units, 1688 VVPAT’s were used for polling at the 1,688 polling stations in the constituency. 18 Ballot Units, 17 Control Units, 26 VVPATs were found malfunctioning during the mock poll in the morning and were replaced.” “Further, 4 ballot units, 2 control units, 13 VVPAT’s failed during actual polling.

New Indian Express

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