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Here’s how Wayanad laid the groundwork and encouraged voters
Updated On: 25 April, 2024 07:30 AM IST | Mumbai | Vinod Kumar Menon
With meticulous planning election officials and police personnel have facilitated home voting for thousands in the district
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Training being provided to electoral staff on the handling of VVPAT. Pics/Wayanad District Administration
Over 3,761 elderly (above 85 years old) and disabled people living in the district of Wayanad, availed of the first of its pathbreaking initiative by the Election Commission of India, wherein they provided the home voting facility for the elderly and persons with disabilities.
Kullathi casts her vote for Kaippa, a voter in the 85 plus category at Thirunelli panchayat polling station in the Mananthavady Loksabha Assembly Constituency. Similarly, other elderly voters too cast their votes, from home, where the poll officials, along with police personnel, visited them and the entire process was videographed, to maintain secrecy, as the elders voted”
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