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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:41:53 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Missing Names from voter's list</title>
			<link>http://www.votereport.in/reports/view/221</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Though I have been voting from past 3 elections, this time my name was not found in the voter's list. Interestingly, my neighbour who is in USA and his family names appeared in the voter's list. Is this a gimmick or lenience ? Definitely, this is a failure in system.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Friendly Voting Officers</title>
			<link>http://www.votereport.in/reports/view/213</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The voting officer greeted with smile. She was the one who was active in the door to door verification for the photo based voter list.
She even asked why my mom has not come for voting.
The whole procedure was efficient and completed in a jiffy.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 07:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>My name is missed in the voter list</title>
			<link>http://www.votereport.in/reports/view/215</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Our family is living in the same address for the past 5 years. We have voter id in the same address, but our names (me, dad, mummy, sister) are missed in the voter list.

Even we have voter id, but how our names are missed in the list. Who is the reason for this issue. I heard that in our locality the same problem for more than 2000 voters. I don't know how is possible? If one name is missed in the family, we can think tat is mistake, but the whole family vote is missed in the list means, what is the reason for this.

I want to know what happening in the election department. What are the election officers are doing? Doesn't they verified the voter list and everything.

We believed that we have voter id, so our name wont be missed in the list. But really we disappointed when we realised that our names are missed in the voter list.

As an education person, I have posted my problem and worries about the election in the internet. But what the uneducated peoples can do? Really I'm worried about this.

Please kindly do anything for this and let me know what is the reason behind this? As an Indian citizen really I'm worried about this election.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 07:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>rashmid: I VOTED!</title>
			<link>http://www.votereport.in/reports/view/219</link>
			<description><![CDATA[rashmid: I VOTED! :) Time taken=3 hrs; Booths I went to=4. Voting Volunteers=Very cooperative. Process=still needs improvement #votereport #mumbai]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Mobile Report</title>
			<link>http://www.votereport.in/reports/view/212</link>
			<description><![CDATA[400025 #EVOM malfunction eyewitness account
Sheela]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<guid>http://www.votereport.in/reports/view/212</guid>
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			<title>Repolling ordered in Etah, Bagpath</title>
			<link>http://www.votereport.in/reports/view/208</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Election Commission on Friday ordered repolling at three places in Uttar Pradesh, including two in Etah from where complaints of
rigging were received.

"Repolling has been ordered at three places in the state. This include Ramaosa and Saraineeh polling stations in Etah district, which is part of Agra parliamentary constituency and Hasanpur Musoorie polling station in Bagpath," chief electoral Officer Anuj Kumar Bishnoi told reporters here.

He said repolling in Etah was ordered as some discrepancies were detected in the number of votes polled and number of votes registered during polling for the fourth phase of Lok Sabha election on Thursday.

Bishnoi said repoll in Hasanpur was ordered following complaints of electronic voting machine malfunction.

"Repolling will be held on Saturday," he added. Meanwhile, he said that preparations for the fifth phase of polling on May 13 will be held in Bareilly on May 11.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>CEC Navin Chawla nearly lost his vote!</title>
			<link>http://www.votereport.in/reports/view/209</link>
			<description><![CDATA[After some confusion about which polling booth he was listed in, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Navin Chawla on Thursday voted in
CEC Navin Chawla
CEC Navin Chawla, with his daughter, shows his finger as he comes out after casting vote. (PTI Photo)
the 15th Lok Sabha elections.

Chawla along with his wife and daughter exercised their franchise at booth number 86 in Nirman Bhawan that houses government offices and has been turned into a VIP polling station for the elections in the New Delhi constituency.

His name was initially missing from the voters' list, but it was later found that his name had appeared on another list as he had shifted home after his promotion as CEC.

"There was confusion and I voted in booth number 86," Chawla told reporters outside Nirman Bhavan where his booth was located.

"The election officials scrambled to find out that he was listed in another booth, because he is the CEC. Would they have done it for an average voter?" asked Champak Goel, a resident of Dwarka in southwest Delhi.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Delhi voting: Missing names keep several voters away</title>
			<link>http://www.votereport.in/reports/view/210</link>
			<description><![CDATA[While the government goaded Delhiites to vote and not be a `pappu', many voters alleged that the government itself had `pappufied'
them.

Several residents returned angry and disappointed from polling booths as their names were missing from lists, even though they had valid identity cards. In some cases, people were forced to stay away as they did not get their voter ID cards on time.

At Seelampur, polling agents themselves revealed that the list given to them was in complete disorder. ``The list for people to vote here is incomplete while we have names of voters whose centres are different. Since morning, we have been sending away people to other polling centres where they are actually listed. We tried complaining but were told that we would have to work with this list,'' said an official.

Alok Verma, a resident of Vasundhara, spent an hour and a half trying to locate his name in different voting centres before returning home disappointed. ``What I hadn't checked was that my voter ID card had a wrong address on it. Consequently I went from one sector to another but my name and my wife's name did not figure anywhere,'' he said. Similarly, Vikas Bhatia and his wife also had to return without casting their votes as they could not find their names on the list. ``We had valid ID cards but our names were missing.

We wasted the entire day because of this and could not even vote,'' Vikas complained.

Officials across the city confirmed that missing names were a common phenomenon though the problem was not ``particularly severe'' in any constituency. But those who were looking forward to casting their votes and had to turn back disappointed due to clerical errors were not amused. Hiru Devi Jain, 70, who came to Montfort School, Ashok Vihar, was not allowed to vote as she did not have a voter ID; she had brought along her ration card instead. Said Jain: ``I had my ration card but the officials still didn't allow me to vote. It was written in the paper that a ration card would be accepted if you didn't have a voter I-card.''

For the unlettered, the bureaucratic wrangles did not matter. Eighty-year-old Veena Jha stood her ground at a polling booth in Karampura, brandishing her I-card. ``Main nahin jaoongi, mujhe vote ginana hai bas (I will not go I want my vote to count),'' she said as police and polling personnel tried to explain to her why she could not vote. ``There seems to be some problem in your address as written in the card. Probably that is why we are not able to locate your name,'' a polling official tried to explain.

Senior citizens Mangal (66) and his wife Nathu Devi (61) spent four hours in the morning trying to find their names in the electoral rolls. ``We haven't even had breakfast. I am a government employee and have been voting from this area since 1985 but this time, our entire family of six is not listed anywhere,'' said the retired NDMC employee.

Infuriated voters also took to posting their frustrations online. ToI received this post from one resident, Neha Srivastava: ``Make your vote count  said the bold headline of ToI today, and when we went to vote in Sushant Lok in Gurgaon...it seemed my vote didn't count or matter. Names of innumerable people were missing from the voters' ID, including mine. Two hours was all I could give my country because my two-year-old son was going to get a heat stroke in the sun. The passports we had taken along did not help.''

Introducing E-Voting can help India?]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Voter bribing in rural east godavari</title>
			<link>http://www.votereport.in/reports/view/211</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Voters were paid 250-1000 Rs in the rural villages of east godavari dist by all congress,TDP and PRP]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Name Missing</title>
			<link>http://www.votereport.in/reports/view/207</link>
			<description><![CDATA[My friend's dad's name was missing when he went there to vote. It was strange.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Height of Irony</title>
			<link>http://www.votereport.in/reports/view/206</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Naveen Chawla, Chief Election Officer's name is missing from the Voter's List.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 11:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<guid>http://www.votereport.in/reports/view/206</guid>
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			<title>voters returned back</title>
			<link>http://www.votereport.in/reports/view/205</link>
			<description><![CDATA[6 - WEST DELHI,28 - HARI NAGAR,Part No. 34 voters returned home due to long queue at the pooling booth. I my self spent 30 minutes in the queue and many returned home as the queue was even getting longer at around 10'O clock, the sun still to rise overhead.
The main reason attributed was the deployment of all three women polling officers present at the booth.
This type of mismanagement by polling booth officials is certainly putting formation of a true democratic government at stake.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>#votereport #delhi #well</title>
			<link>http://www.votereport.in/reports/view/216</link>
			<description><![CDATA[#votereport #delhi #well]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Voting was fine at my polling station, though very few people were present there. #votereport</title>
			<link>http://www.votereport.in/reports/view/217</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Voting was fine at my polling station, though very few people were present there. #votereport]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>wnwek: has voted. Went peacefully. And got a neat indelible mark too #Delhi #votereport</title>
			<link>http://www.votereport.in/reports/view/218</link>
			<description><![CDATA[wnwek: has voted. Went peacefully. And got a neat indelible mark too #Delhi #votereport]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Authorities to curb narcotics distribution</title>
			<link>http://www.votereport.in/reports/view/194</link>
			<description><![CDATA[JAIPUR: Apart from liquor and arms, another concern for the authorities is to check the candidates and party workers from distributing narcotics
like opium and poppy husk to voters.

There have also been cases of smuggling of opium from Rajasthan to adjoining states, including Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, after which police have intensified checks at entry and exit points of the state.

The recent incident in which Punjab police seized 1.5 kg opium from a local resident confirmed that opium was being smuggled from Rajasthan. During interrogation, the accused revealed that he brought the consignment from Rajasthan which was to be distributed at various places in the city.

In April, Jaipur police seized 15 kg of opium from a motorcycle but two drug peddlers who were carrying the contraband succeeded in giving the slip. Police sources said that the contraband packed in seven packets was carried by two drug traffickers, probably hailing from Neemach (MP). When the police tried to stop the vehicle between Vijaipur and Bassi, they sped away. The police chased them but they fled leaving behind the vehicle and the bag containing the narcotic substance, the sources said.

Sources said that there are around 17,337 opium cultivators on 4,458.20 hectare land area in Rajasthan with main centres in Kota, Chittorgarh, Jhalawar and Bhilwara. That too, when around 1,500 cultivators in the state had to abandon their crop due to unfavourable weather.

A local NGO, studying distribution of narcotics among voters, stated that it had prepared a list of the items distributed among voters during canvassing. The volunteers are requesting the candidates not to be involved in such practices so as to ensure free and fair polling. Not just candidates, they are also visiting villages and asked the residents not to vote for a candidate using unfair means to woo voters.

Dhani Ram, a villager from Dausa, said that he had gone to his relatives in Chittorgarh where supporters of a local candidate offered opium to the villagers, however, he cited strengthening of bond as the reason behind the practice.

Speaking about the smuggling of opium during elections, DIG (crime) GC Gupta said that in cities, it was imported liquor and in villages it was country-made or poor brands. But in most of the interior villages, candidates and their supporters offer opium to garner support. He also said that police teams have been alerted after detecting rise in cases of opium smuggling, the police are keeping a vigil even in small towns and villages to ensure that the practice is checked.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Booze flows freely for votes</title>
			<link>http://www.votereport.in/reports/view/195</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ADHOWAL (LUDHIANA): Liquor and elections go hand in hand everywhere. It seems poll days are the heydays for the manufacturers of illicit country-made liquor as political bosses go to any extent to woo the vote-bank.
Despite the election commission’s restrictions on the distribution of liquor during campaigning, the manufacturing of illicit liquor is being carried out with impunity on the banks of Satluj. Indeed, the business has doubled due to increased demand by political parties.
According to information, political parties are approaching liquor manufacturers for distributing the same amongst the voters in rural areas.
Despite the risk involved, many families living on the banks of Satluj are into the business of manufacturing illicit alcohol and earning their livelihood through it.
The liquor is made in special ‘bhattis’ which are safely placed in the fields on the banks of the river. Information reveals the booze usually cost about Rs 50 per litre, but the rate of this is negotiable depending upon the demand of the customers.
Better known as ‘Desi’ or ‘Rudi Marka’, the liquor is quite popular amongst the rural population and is derived by heating a mixture of jaggery, seera and water for hours together.
However, in order to meet the increasing demand of political parties, urea is being frequently used to make this liquor, even though it is harmful for human consumption. Sources said urea helped in the quicker fermentation of jaggery.
While talking to TOI, Raman (name changed), who is into the illicit liquor business from the last one decade, said, “Due to the elections, our business has increased up to 100%. The sales have doubled these days.”
Raman revealed that owing to strict police vigilance, political parties were transporting the liquor on their own.
Informing that political bosses had asked them to continue with the business and not worry about raids, another manufacturer, said, “Leaders impress the rural population by distributing liquor free of cost to win their votes.”
Meanwhile, Sanjeev Kalra, IG, Jalandhar range, said, “We keep strict vigil to prevent such activities during the election days.” Feigning ignorance over the increase in illicit liquor business, he said, “We are trying to curb it.”]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Delhi government official suspended for model code violation</title>
			<link>http://www.votereport.in/reports/view/196</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A day before the capital goes to polls, a Delhi government official on election duty was suspended for violating the model code of conduct set by the Election Commission Wednesday.
Bhupesh Chaudhary, a lower division clerk posted in the Sadar Bazar area, was suspended for supporting a political party while on poll duty, said a statement issued by the Election Commission.


"All officers involved in the election have to abide by the model code of conduct - that includes remaining neutral during the election process," said a poll official.


With an 11.09 million strong electorate, Thursday's polling process in Delhi will decide the fate of 160 candidates and will take place in 11,348 polling booths across the seven constituencies.


Keeping the heat in mind, the Election Commission has asked for potable water and oral rehydration solution (ORS) packets to be made available in all booths as well as tents to be set up in those booths where there is no balcony for people to wait.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Poll panel reprimands Kalyan Banerjee, Prasant Pradhan</title>
			<link>http://www.votereport.in/reports/view/197</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Election Commission Wednesday reprimanded Trinamool Congress candidate Kalyan Banerjee and Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) candidate Prasant Pradhan for making derogatory remarks against West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee respectively.
Kalyan Banerjee, a Trinamool candidate from Sreerampore parliamentary constituency, filed a reply to the Election Commission.


"The commission considered the reply and found the reply not satisfactory," said the poll panel official here.


"The commission has reprimanded Kalyan Banerjee," said Deputy Election Commissioner R. Balakrishnan.


The Commission also made the same observation on the reply filed by Pradhan, the CPI-M candidate from Contai Lok Sabha seat in West Bengal, and reprimanded him.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Tamil Nadu to have additional observers</title>
			<link>http://www.votereport.in/reports/view/198</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Election Commission Wednesday said it will deploy additional observers in some areas of Tamil Nadu.
Asked if the Election Commission has taken any action against Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi's son and DMK candidate M.K. Azhagiri, who allegedly misused official machinery to lure voters in the Madurai constituency, Deputy Election Commissioner J.P. Prakash said additional observers would be sent to some places in Tamil Nadu.


"The Election Commission was in Chennai yesterday (Tuesday) and (it has) taken review of the code violation," Prakash told reporters.


Azhagiri is contesting against the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) nominee P. Mohan in the May 13 Lok Sabha elections.


CPI-M general secretary Prakash Karat sent a letter to Chief Election Commissioner Naveen Chawla seeking action against Azhagiri for allegedly misusing the official machinery.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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