Explained | Urban apathy or out-of-sync voter lists responsible for low turnout in Bengaluru?
Experts and civic group activists attribute the low turnout (Bengaluru: 55%, as compared to 73.19% for entire Karnataka) to errors in voter rolls, like duplication, deletion, and mismatched entries, and voters being forced to go from one booth to another searching for their names in the electoral rolls.
The Hindu ·
The Hindu
