Maoists fire at polling booth during Maharashtra re-poll

October 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Election Commission Wednesday ordered re-poll in two stations and adjourned voting in 22 others in Maharashtra after Tuesdays assembly elections. The re-poll has been ordered at one station each in Nagpur and Ichalkaranji constituencies.

October 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - People in 22 polling stations in the Maoist-affected areas of Maharashtra, where poll officials could not reach Tuesday, will be given another opportunity to vote, Chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla said here. Chawla said the polling was "very satisfactory" and the "morale was extremely" high in the Maoist-hit polling stations in Maharashtra.

October 12th, 2009 MUMBAI - The Maharashtra government has received intelligence inputs that Maoists from neighbouring states have infiltrated into the state to foment trouble during voting for the assembly elections Tuesday, a senior police official said here Monday. "We have got intelligence reports that Maoists are infiltrating here from Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh.

October 12th, 2009 NAGPUR - Suspected Maoists fired a few rounds shortly before polling began early Tuesday in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district, where the rebels had killed 17 policemen last week, a senior police officer said. "At around 6.30 a.m., before polling started, a few rounds of gunfire were heard in Kasanpur village of Aheri assembly constituency," Gadchiroli Superintendent of Police S.

May 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Re-polling in two booths in south Delhi's Chhattarpur area saw 65.42 percent voter turnout Sunday. The re-polling was ordered in the two booths after they recorded 98.5 percent turnout Thursday, the Election Commission said.

May 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Re-polling was underway Sunday in two polling booths in south Delhi's Chhattarpur area that had both recorded an unbelievable 98.5 percent voter turnout, officials said. 'In polling station numbers 64 and 64 A, the assistant returning officer told me that the voter turnout was 98.5 percent on Thursday.

May 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - After some confusion about which polling booth he was listed in, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Navin Chawla Thursday voted in the 15th Lok Sabha elections. Chawla along with his wife and daughter exercised their franchise at booth number 86 in Nirman Bhawan that houses government offices and has been turned into a VIP polling station for the elections in the New Delhi constituency.

April 27th, 2009 RAIPUR - Re-polling was underway Monday in 25 booths in three Lok Sabha seats in Chhattisgarh where Maoists had disrupted the electoral process Thursday. Polling began at 7 a.m.

April 16th, 2009 MUMBAI - Maharashtra witnessed 54 percent voter turnout in 13 Lok Sabha constituencies that went to polls in the first phase Thursday, an election commission official said. Voting, which started on a dull note at 7 a.m., failed to pick up even after four hours with the figure at just above 14 percent at noon.

April 16th, 2009 RAIPUR - Armed Maoist rebels created panic at six polling stations in Chhattisgarh's southern restive Bastar region by opening fire soon after voting for the parliamentary elections began Thursday morning, police said. 'The rebels fired at six booths in Dantewada and Narayanpur districts but no one was injured,' Chhattisgarh Additional Director General of Police Girdhari Nayak told IANS.

April 16th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Continuing their day-long violence aiming to stall the electoral process, Maoists opened fire on security personnel returning from polling duty in Orissa's Malkangiri district Thursday evening, police said. Security personnel were returning on foot from polling duty in Kalimela area of Malkangiri when Maoists started firing on them.

April 16th, 2009 RANCHI - Maoists abducted four polling officials and killed nine people in a landmine blast Thursday in Latehar district of Jharkhand as the rebels went on a spree of violence to disrupt the first phase of elections, police said. According to police, four officials who were overseeing the elections at Hata polling booth, around 140 km from here, were abducted by the Maoists.

April 16th, 2009 GADCHIROLI - A gang of heavily armed Maoists came to attack a polling booth in a village Thursday but were foiled by security forces who opened retaliatory fire forcing them back into the jungles, police here said. The guerrillas were seen approaching the booth in Kondavahi village here at 5 a.m.

April 16th, 2009 MUMBAI - Maharashtra's 13 Lok Sabha constituencies notched a low turnout of 17.14 percent till 11 a.m. Thursday, officials said.

April 16th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Maoist rebels attacked a polling booth and set fire to voting machines and a vehicle in Orissa's Malkangiri district while voting for the first phase of general and assembly elections was underway Thursday, police said. 'The rebels attacked the polling booth in Andrahill village.