Mysore/Mysuru: It seems that transgenders have shown little interest in voting, going by the numbers they have voted in the LS polls from Mysuru-Kodagu Lok Sabha constituency held on Friday. There were 184 trangender voters who have been classified as ‘others’ category in Mysuru-Kodagu LS seat. Also these voters were issued voter ID cards. But…
Mysore/Mysuru: Security for the strong rooms storing Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and the VVPAT systems (Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail) will be organised in three tiers. Armed personnel from the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), specially deployed for this purpose, will assume control over the counting centre security. It may be mentioned here that the…
Mysore/Mysuru: Coming to the aid of voters just in time, the District Administration allowed as many as 2,749 such voters in Mysuru-Kodagu Lok Sabha Constituency to exercise their franchise who came rushing to the polling booths, to cast their votes even after the deadline ended at 6 pm yesterday. The Election Commission had set 7…
Mysore/Mysuru: The Mysuru-Kodagu Lok Sabha Constituency has recorded 71 percent poll percentage in the polls held yesterday, with the District Administration revising the figure this afternoon after collation of figures from all polling booths in each of the eight Assembly segments of the Constituency. According to the revised figure, Periyapatna Assembly segment recorded the highest…
Hanur: A section of villagers who had boycotted to vote in Chamarajanagar (SC Reserve) Lok Sabha Constituency that went to polling in the first phase of elections held yesterday, went on a rampage, damaging the polling booth at Indiganaththa village in the fringes of Male Mahadeshwara Hills forest in Hanur taluk of Chamarajanagar district. The…
Mysore/Mysuru: While the top women officers including Deputy Commissioner and District Electoral Officer created voting awareness in Chamarajanagar Lok Sabha Constituency created in a unique way by draping a specially ordered hand woven silk sarees with a message requesting the voters to cast their franchise, the officials at various polling booths in Nanjangud coming under…
Mysore/Mysuru: Efforts to attain clean and error-free voter lists have fallen short, even after 76 years of Independence. The persistent issue of ‘ghosts’ — deceased individuals listed as alive — and the prevalence of duplicate names continue to plague most extensive voter databases. In Mysuru-Kodagu LS Constituency, numerous voters found their names missing from the…
Mysore/Mysuru: Two centenarian women set an example to others by exercising their franchise for Lok Sabha elections from Mysuru-Kodagu Constituency yesterday. Dakshayanamma Shivakumar, aged 104, accompanied by her son S. Gnanashankar, Managing Director of Mahaa Nandikeshwara Printers and Sigma Hospital, exercised her franchise at a polling booth in JSS School in J.P. Nagar, Mysuru, yesterday….
Mysore/Mysuru: The urge to vote saw many staying abroad but having their roots in Mysuru and Mandya district flying back home spending several lakhs of rupees on air fare, for the first phase of Lok Sabha elections held yesterday. Pallavi M. Kaushik, who is currently settled in Australia and daughter of K.R. Manjunath, a resident…
Mysore/Mysuru: Newly weds exercised their franchise soon after tying their knots various polling booths across Kushalnagar in Kodagu district yesterday. At first, K.S. Srinivas, after completing the marriage rituals, arrived at a polling booth in Kudige and along with his wife to cast his vote. Meanwhile, B.N. Annapurna and Dhananjay couple, who entered into a…
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