With just about 48 hours to go for polling in the Lok Sabha elections, authorities have said that more than 90% of the voters have been issued the voter information slips, commonly referred to as “booth slips”, in Tiruchi district. However, there were complaints from a section of city residents that they had not received the slips.
The slips issued on behalf of the Election Commission with details of voters and their polling stations where they would exercise their franchise were distributed through over 2,500 booth-level officers (BLOs).
The BLOs were required to obtain the signature of an adult member of the household on handing over the slips to the family. BLOs had been instructed to make two or three rounds of visits to ensure that the slips are distributed to all voters, the officials said.
