Re-polling has begun in booth number 2, at Gandhi Vidyalaya Kannada and Tamil School in Lottegollahalli, Hebbal constituency on a peaceful note. Voters were seen standing in long serpentine queues waiting to cast their votes.
The Election Commission had ordered re-polling in the booth after Voter Verified Paper Audit Trial (VVPAT) was faultily recording votes cast on May 12.
Chief Electoral Officer Sanjiv Kumar said on Sunday, "the button against serial no. 9 on the EVM, which had been allotted to an Independent, got stuck and even before anyone pressed a button to cast vote, the VVPAT machine was generating the paper slip."
A “very high” percentage of voter-verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT) machines deployed in the elections on Saturday malfunctioned either minutes before the polling started or during the polling. The Election Commission put the figure at 4.18 % of the total 57,786 VVPAT machines deployed.