Ban ferry of voters, party tables: NGOs

MARGAO: Following a recent meeting held with joint chief electoral officer N S Navti and representatives of several South Goa-based NGOs, a memorandum was submitted to Navti demanding that transportation of voters and the use of 'party tables' be banned during the upcoming assembly elections.

"Such malpractices such as transportation of voters from their residence to the polling stations, keeping party tables outside the polling station and the presence of party workers or candidates near the polling station on the day of the elections, should be curbed by your authority" read the memorandum. The NGO's stated such practises had to be abolished "so as to allow the voters to exercise their democratic right and free will to chose and cast their valuable vote to whomever they wish for better governance of the state."

The NGO's, which included Popular Front of India, United Goans Welfare front, Goenchea Xetkarancho Ekvott amongst others, further claimed that due to such malpractices voters were mentally harassed and inconvenienced unnecessarily.

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