Heres why you can avoid long queues at some MP polls booths

November 28, 2018 12:52

Bhopal Collector Sudama Khade informed officials at a review meeting in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh on Monday that the state administration had organised queue-less voting in a few polling stations. Voters could pick a time slot to cast their votes, avoiding long queues.

But not all were impressed. For one, Mandsaur Collector OP Shrivastva had a problem: "Even our honourable President and prime minister exercise their voting rights standing in a queue." He added that the queue-less voting facility would "disappoint' many voters because standing in serpentine queues was part and parcel of the voting process.

Chief Electoral Officer V L Kantarao stepped in to assuage his concern. The new initiative was being tried "on an experimental basis and only in a few booths", he assured Shrivastva.

Image: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan after casting his vote on Wednesday

-- Business Standard

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