Kohima, April 25 (DIPR): Nagaland Commissioner and Returning Officer for Nagaland Parliamentary Constituency, Temjen Toy today issued a clarification with regard to an article published in local dailies on April 24, regarding Polling Stations which have recorded more than 100% voting. Stating that the whole state of Nagaland is a single Parliamentary Constituency, the RO clarified that as per the ECI’s directive, except for Service Voters, all voters on Election Duty will exercise their franchise through Election Duty Certificate (EDC), which can be cast in the EVM of any Polling Station in the state or the Polling Station where they are on duty. The RO said that this technicality resulted in some Polling Stations recording more votes than the number of voters in the Electoral Roll. To ensure that no Polling Station recorded more than 100% votes, without electors exercising their franchise through EDC, the Assistant Returning Officers have checked all relevant documents during the time of scrutiny in Form 17A and other documents and have re-verified the same again and found no anomalies, the RO stated.
