Voters stand queue up at a polling station during the third phase of the Uttar Pradesh municipal elections in Mirzapur on November 29, 2017. The third phase, which covered 233 local bodies across 26 districts, however, registered an increase of 1.5% voting and touched 53%. Agarwal said polling was conducted peacefully, even as he downplayed the incidents of malfunctioning EVMs, 27 on Wednesday, as normal. A total of 503 EVMs had to be replaced over the three phases, out of which 250 were in Lucknow itself. Mr. Agarwal said the figure of 503 was negligible compared to the total number of EVMs deployed by the SEC, 32,374.

Source: The Hindu November 29, 2017 16:35 UTC