High turnout in coastal panchayats
Long queues of voters, including women and first- time voters, were seen in many booths in the coastal panchayats
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2015-11-06 06:06 GMT
Kochi: Though many voters in urban areas preferred to keep indoors on the polling day, in the coastal panchayats, they turned up in huge numbers from early morning braving heavy downpour.
Polling was peaceful though instances of technical snags of electronic voting machines were reported from many booths causing delay in the process.
Polling officials said that the process was delayed since the voters were not familiar with the electronic voting machines. “We had to explain several times how to vote,” an officer said.
Long queues of voters, including women and first- time voters, were seen in many booths in the coastal panchayats.
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