VADODARA: In a significant faux pas, the date for the ensuing Lok Sabha polls for the Panchmahal parliamentary seat was once misprinted on electorate’ slips prepared. Instead April 23 the poll date was once printed as April 24 on the voter slips.
To save itself from embarrassment, district election authorities reprint voter slips for 219 booths in a single day and started distributing it once more to all the registered electorate of Morva Hadaf space.
While the correct date was once stamped on most of the slips, some have been dispensed without right kind date. The error is assumed to have taken position within the slips for the Morva Hadaf space after an influence failure. Officials said that the area has 253 booths and the slips for 34 booths have been printed when the failure happened.
“When the systems have been restarted and the data was once entered once more, the date of the polls was once wrongly entered as April 24. The error got here to mild and the correct date was once stamped on the closing slips,” said Panchmahal district collector Udit Agarwal.
But the stamps weren't put on slips for 2 booths and the error went not noted until the slips have been dispensed and a few electorate spotted the error on Friday night time. The management swung into motion and it was once made up our minds to print contemporary slips for all 219 booths the place the error had taken position.
“The distribution was once started within the night time itself and we are taking acknowledgements of those that are given the contemporary slips. The process could also be being videotaped,” said Agarwal. The district management hopes to finish the process by means of Sunday morning.
Agarwal has additionally sought an evidence from the Electoral Registration Officer for the area in regards to the faux pas.
To save itself from embarrassment, district election authorities reprint voter slips for 219 booths in a single day and started distributing it once more to all the registered electorate of Morva Hadaf space.
While the correct date was once stamped on most of the slips, some have been dispensed without right kind date. The error is assumed to have taken position within the slips for the Morva Hadaf space after an influence failure. Officials said that the area has 253 booths and the slips for 34 booths have been printed when the failure happened.
“When the systems have been restarted and the data was once entered once more, the date of the polls was once wrongly entered as April 24. The error got here to mild and the correct date was once stamped on the closing slips,” said Panchmahal district collector Udit Agarwal.
But the stamps weren't put on slips for 2 booths and the error went not noted until the slips have been dispensed and a few electorate spotted the error on Friday night time. The management swung into motion and it was once made up our minds to print contemporary slips for all 219 booths the place the error had taken position.
“The distribution was once started within the night time itself and we are taking acknowledgements of those that are given the contemporary slips. The process could also be being videotaped,” said Agarwal. The district management hopes to finish the process by means of Sunday morning.
Agarwal has additionally sought an evidence from the Electoral Registration Officer for the area in regards to the faux pas.
Wrong date on voter slips sends election officials into a tizzy
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