Lack of proper poll updates on official website irks many

HUBBALLI: The Election Commission has made several preparations to update other people about polling and voter turnout on an hourly basis. However, www.ceokarnataka.kar.nic.in, the website of Chief Electoral Officer of Karnataka has disenchanted many people who relied on it to get right of entry to well timed information about polling percentage and trends during the second phase Lok Sabha election held on Tuesday.
Many individuals who accessed the website to get information about polling within the 14 Lok Sabha constituencies said they may now not get correct main points on it.



Mayur Patil who works in a non-public company in Hubballi said, “I didn't have get right of entry to to another way to get updates on voter turnout on Tuesday. I wanted to know the way the voting was once happening in Kalaburagi, Dharwad and Belagavi constituencies. When I logged into this website round 10am, it said the turnout was once 7.35 in keeping with cent via 9am. The website was once updating voter turnout at periods of two hours. I logged in to the website a couple of hours later and it was once nonetheless appearing the 9am figures.”

“The voter turnout in each and every assembly phase of was once additionally now not updated and it was once 0 till 3pm. As I may now not get correct information from this website, I had to rely on other assets,” said Mayur.

Manjunath Pujar, a diploma scholar said, “I was browsing many web sites to get updates at the polling. Someone steered that I log in to this website. I in an instant logged into it round 6 pm, however to my shock, the website was once appearing polling figures for most effective till 3pm.”

Mehaboob Nadaf is a software engineering working in Bengaluru and he had come to Dharwad to vote. He said, “As there was once some power drawback in our area, I logged into this website to get updates about voter turnout in Dharwad and the full voter turnout. When I logged in round nine.30pm, the website was once appearing the turnout updated at 5pm, which was once 60.48%. I stored browsing this website online till past due evening, however there was once no update about the ultimate polling percentage.”


When contacted further CEO (AN) of CEO, Karnataka Dr Ajay Nagabhusan told TOI, “We have now not come throughout this type of proceedings. We had been updating the website incessantly however we will be able to test what went incorrect and set proper it in an instant.”


Final figures updated after IdealNews alert


When IdealNews logged into test the overall poll figures round 1pm on Wednesday, the most recent update at the website was once from 5pm on Tuesday IdealNews alerted Dr M N Ajay Nagabhusan, about it and about half an hour later, the overall polling percentage of 66.38 was once updated at the website.


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