Many poll officials feared missed out on voting in Bengaluru as their ballot slips never came
election duty can sometimes mean forfeiting one’s own right to vote. This is what some officials, who helped others vote in Bengaluru on Friday, have learnt the hard way.
“All of us on the poll duty were supposed to get the ballot papers at our mustering centre on Thursday (April 25), but only some got and they cast their votes. We were told our slips would come later and we kept waiting. They never came,” said a woman officer who worked as presiding officer at a polling station in Immadihalli in Mahadevapura assembly constituency.
She was agitated as well as disappointed that polling officials sometimes don’t get the same treatment they are expected to discharge towards voters. One of them said they never get to experience the EVM, but to be denied even paper ballots was not acceptable.
“I have not been able to vote despite several reminders to the authorities. Hopefully the Election Commission of India (ECI) will take note and intervene. Otherwise, it will be like the ECI curtailing the voting rights to its own officials,” said another official, who worked in the Chamarajpet assembly segment. “I am going to complain to the authorities regarding the negligence of the Chamarajpet staff due to which many votes were not polled.”
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Many poll officials feared missed out on voting in Bengaluru as their ballot slips never came
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