Several errors in last week's advance vote have landed the Election Commission (EC) in trouble. Such mistakes raise doubts about the efficacy of the poll agency in organising Sunday's much-anticipated election and whether it can ensure it is free and fair.
One of the errors involved EC officers mistakenly putting postal instead of electoral constituency codes on the ballot envelopes. Other mistakes involved wrong or missing information at some polling stations. Such errors indicated carelessness or a lack of proper officer training.
