Election Fee bans mock polls after ends in Maharashtra—however why?

It was at greatest a symbolic, if progressive, protest by villagers of Markadwadi in Solapur. Not satisfied by the depend of votes from the village’s polling cubicles on 23 November, they’d determined to carry a mock ballot — with poll papers, this time.

They wished to know the place their votes had really gone, being dissatisfied with the digital vote depend. They had been going to bear the bills of printing the poll papers and arranging for poll containers and polling officers themselves.

The progressive protest generated delicate nationwide and regional curiosity — till the Election Fee stepped within the day the occasion and reportedly ‘banned’ the mock ballot.

Native police imposed prohibitory orders, banning the meeting of greater than 5 folks. The cops additionally sought to dissuade the organisers and knowledgeable them it was unlawful to carry a ‘repoll’ and that solely the Election Fee was authorised to conduct elections within the nation.