They told her, ‘Woh jail jayega (He’ll go to prison)’.”Rule 49MA of the Conduct of Elections Rules says that any voter complaining of a vote-paper slip mismatch can opt for a test vote. He picked a button at random, and the paper slip matched. The test vote is recorded and deleted in the counting. “Also, after a mismatch between the paper slip and electronic vote cast for a specific party, a test vote for another party cannot serve as (falsifying) evidence,” he said. Many complainants have shied away from the test vote out of fear of prosecution since Ebin Babu, a Thiruvananthapuram voter, was arrested after failing a test vote last month.

Source: The Telegraph May 14, 2019 02:03 UTC