JOIN US These include two booths in Neyveli constituency in Cuddalore district, where unruly elements damaged two EVMs' after Wednesday's polling, two polling stations in Thiruvidaimarudur in Thanjavur district where villagers boycotted the polls due to wrong location of polling stations, and one each in Theni, Thiruvannamalai and Kanniykumari district, an official release here said.
Meanwhile, the AIADMK general secretary J Jayalalitha has sought central armed reserve police force to guard strong rooms where the Electronic Voting Machines (EVM)s’ have been kept after the polling concluded on Wednesday.
In an appeal to the EC, Jayalalitha said that it was worrying” that the state Police security alone had been provided a all the counting centres across the state, as the latter was still under the “control” of the Karunanidhi regime.
Emphasising that it was the EC’s responsibility to ensure full security for the EVMs’, which each Assembly segment-wise have been moved to the counting centres after the polling, Jayalalitha said she was constrained to make this appeal to the EC given the “irregularities” in the past elections including the previous 2009 Lok Sabha poll under the DMK regime.
The EC officials meanwhile said on Thursday that the final poll percentage for the elections in Tamil Nadu came to a record 77.80 per cent, with Karur district recording the highest 86 per cent.