Voter slips to be distributed from Nov 23

Voter slips for all the eligible voters will be distributed from November 23, said Chief Electoral officer Rajath Kumar in a press conference here on Tuesday adding that the printing of ballot paper will be done from the same day.

Rajath also said that 18,000 additional police force from Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Odisha will be deployed besides 35,000 policemen from Telangana. The EC team is overseeing the arrangements in the state and as many as 32,796 polling booths were readied, the CEO said. He also said that around Rs 90.72 crore cash was seized in the state.

According to EC, over 7.4 lakh new voters and 243 NRI voters were registered ahead of the assembly elections in the state.