Election Commission of India fine-tunes its strategy to fit in the ground reality

Tamil Nadu has more women electors than men, and the political parties in the State have long vied with one another for announcing welfare schemes designed for the benefit of women. The Election Commission of India, too, is adapting itself to a similar reality. It has modified some of its procedures to suit the scenario in Tamil Nadu.

The Election Commission has decided to continue with the system of computer-based randomisation but has directed authorities to prepare a ‘negative list’ of polling stations (considered inaccessible or remotely located) where no women personnel will be posted. Earlier, women polling workers were deployed only through manual randomisation.