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The postal votes are counted first. There were two lakh postal votes last time, while it could be nearly 7 lakh in this election.
Polling officials have allowed tendered votes in situations in which they were convinced that genuine voters had lost their rights to impersonators.
The EC relaxed the norm of the house visits to inspect the credentials of all those who had applied for the inclusion of their names in the voters’ list published on January 20. With the booth-level officers discarding house visits, all applicants found their names in the list.
Serious legal issues are involved in the act of sharing personal information along with the photo of the individuals to a foreign-based company, CPM politburo member M A Baby said.
Such voters may also be asked to give their thumb impression apart from the mandatory signature by the polling officers on duty at the voting centres.
In his petition Chennithala had claimed the names of over 4 lakh entries were found on voters' list prepared for 131 out of the 140 assembly constituencies.
Manorama has accessed documents that show up to 8 votes were added in various booths using the name and photo of one voter in the Thiruvananthapuram constituency.
The UDF candidate in Kazhakkoottam, Dr S S Lal, too, has two votes in the Vattiyoorkkavu Assembly constituency.
The opposition leader also revealed from which constituencies the double entries were made for Irikkur, Azhikode, Cherthala and Kundara constituencies.
Those voters whose names have been duplicated in the list will be under surveillance on polling day.