DMK cadre complain about abandoned tag

The DMK’s Pudukottai district unit on Wednesday complained to District Election Officer P. Uma Maheswari {that a} paper tag with signatures of sales space brokers and a polling official was discovered abandoned.

The unit suspects that the tag bought indifferent from digital voting machines (EVMs) introduced from the Viralimalai Assembly constituency. The occasion has expressed apprehension that one of many machines might have been changed.

The paper tag was seen by DMK cadre after EVMs of the six Assembly constituencies have been stored inside robust rooms on the counting centre within the morning, within the presence of the Collector, administration officers and representatives of events.

It subsequently got here to mild that the tag belonged to sales space quantity 27 in Mathur space, falling underneath the Viralimalai constituency.

The Collector and officers instructed DMK cadre {that a} mock ballot was held within the presence of the brokers forward of the graduation of precise polling, and paper slips collected from the VVPAT machine have been stored inside a small field and a tag connected on prime of it. Official sources stated the paper tag by chance bought indifferent from the field. The officers additional defined that the tag had no reference to EVMs.

On getting permission from the Chief Electoral Officer, the robust room the place the machines of the Viralimalai constituency have been stored was reopened for the DMK members. The machines have been discovered intact, after which the cadre left.