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Five people from one family in a remote Himalayan village voted in today's phase in their own polling station after officials travelled for seven hours and borrowed a power connection from the military to enable them to cast their ballots.

At least one polling station managed exclusively by women will be set up in every assembly constituency to the extent possible in the five states for which elections were announced on Saturday.

The Election Commission today ordered fresh voting in one polling station of Assam's Ratabari seat following a controversy over officials inexplicably transporting an electronic voting machine (EVM) in a BJP candidate's car yesterday.

The Election Commission has set up 96,661 polling stations in 288 constituencies where a total of 3,237 candidates are contesting. The state has 289 assembly constituencies; however, one of the constituencies has a nominated legislator.

The Election Commission has decided to conduct live webcasting from over 9,000 polling stations, including sensitive ones, during the next week's Maharashtra Assembly elections, an official said on Monday.

A controversy has broken out in Madhya Pradesh over the delay in Electronic Voting Machines or EVMs reaching the collection centre in Sagar on Friday, a full 48 hours after voting ended in the state elections on Wednesday.

After VVPAT machines developed snags during Monday's Lok Sabha bypolls, re-polling is underway today in five booths of Shamli and 68 booths of Saharanpur falling under the Kairana parliamentary constituency, Maharashtra's Bhandara-Gondia and one polling station in Nagaland.

Voting is underway in 73 polling booths in western Uttar Pradesh's Kairana, 49 polling stations in Maharashtra's Bhandara-Gondia and one polling station in Nagaland, after the Election Commission (EC) announced that re-polling will take place in these booths after widespread failure of the machines in Monday's by-elections.

One person has been killed and two injured in poll-related clashes in Nagaland's Zunheboto district where voting was underway along with Meghalaya today. The two tribal-Christian-majority north-eastern states have 60 seats and elections are being held for 59 seats. The BJP, which is already in power in Assam, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh, hopes to...

Some Kenyans braced long queues, others rain and chilly weather, but one woman gave birth Tuesday while in line to vote in general elections and still made sure to vote.

One man was killed and two women wounded when a gunman opened fire with an assault rifle at a house across the street from a polling station in the Southern California town of Azusa on Tuesday, police said, before the gunman was also found dead.

Two polling stations in California were placed on lockdown Tuesday following a nearby shooting that killed one person and wounded three, the authorities said.

A statue of a topless, hoofed Hillary Clinton appeared outside a subway station Tuesday, prompting a tussle after one woman purposely knocked it down and sat on it to prevent others from picking it back up.

The Australian election is on a knife-edge, but there is one concept uniting voters -- the prospect of a sizzling sausage sandwich at the polling station on Saturday.

Polling stations opened across Spain today in what is expected to be one of the most closely-fought contests in its modern history, as two dynamic new parties take on the country's long-established giants.

Five people from one family in a remote Himalayan village voted in today's phase in their own polling station after officials travelled for seven hours and borrowed a power connection from the military to enable them to cast their ballots.

At least one polling station managed exclusively by women will be set up in every assembly constituency to the extent possible in the five states for which elections were announced on Saturday.

The Election Commission today ordered fresh voting in one polling station of Assam's Ratabari seat following a controversy over officials inexplicably transporting an electronic voting machine (EVM) in a BJP candidate's car yesterday.

The Election Commission has set up 96,661 polling stations in 288 constituencies where a total of 3,237 candidates are contesting. The state has 289 assembly constituencies; however, one of the constituencies has a nominated legislator.

The Election Commission has decided to conduct live webcasting from over 9,000 polling stations, including sensitive ones, during the next week's Maharashtra Assembly elections, an official said on Monday.

A controversy has broken out in Madhya Pradesh over the delay in Electronic Voting Machines or EVMs reaching the collection centre in Sagar on Friday, a full 48 hours after voting ended in the state elections on Wednesday.

After VVPAT machines developed snags during Monday's Lok Sabha bypolls, re-polling is underway today in five booths of Shamli and 68 booths of Saharanpur falling under the Kairana parliamentary constituency, Maharashtra's Bhandara-Gondia and one polling station in Nagaland.

Voting is underway in 73 polling booths in western Uttar Pradesh's Kairana, 49 polling stations in Maharashtra's Bhandara-Gondia and one polling station in Nagaland, after the Election Commission (EC) announced that re-polling will take place in these booths after widespread failure of the machines in Monday's by-elections.

One person has been killed and two injured in poll-related clashes in Nagaland's Zunheboto district where voting was underway along with Meghalaya today. The two tribal-Christian-majority north-eastern states have 60 seats and elections are being held for 59 seats. The BJP, which is already in power in Assam, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh, hopes to...

Some Kenyans braced long queues, others rain and chilly weather, but one woman gave birth Tuesday while in line to vote in general elections and still made sure to vote.

One man was killed and two women wounded when a gunman opened fire with an assault rifle at a house across the street from a polling station in the Southern California town of Azusa on Tuesday, police said, before the gunman was also found dead.

Two polling stations in California were placed on lockdown Tuesday following a nearby shooting that killed one person and wounded three, the authorities said.

A statue of a topless, hoofed Hillary Clinton appeared outside a subway station Tuesday, prompting a tussle after one woman purposely knocked it down and sat on it to prevent others from picking it back up.

The Australian election is on a knife-edge, but there is one concept uniting voters -- the prospect of a sizzling sausage sandwich at the polling station on Saturday.

Polling stations opened across Spain today in what is expected to be one of the most closely-fought contests in its modern history, as two dynamic new parties take on the country's long-established giants.