Udupi Deputy Commissioner Priyanka Mary Francis on Monday released posters and hoarding designs in Udupi depicting local culture and diversity to attract voters to the polling booths on May 12.
Some of them have slogans in Kundapur Kannada. One of them read: “Aentha kelsidru vot hakudond marukaga” (However engaged, one should not forget to vote). Another in Tulu read: “Vot paadara undu. Bega poyiye” (Let us march fast to vote).
The Systematic Voters Education and Electoral Participation Committee of Udupi has brought out 15 such posters.
Meanwhile, speaking at an awareness programme on the functioning of EVMs and VVPATs at Udupi Bar Council, the Deputy Commissioner said that all 1,400 machines have been tested in the presence of representatives of political parties. She said that the representatives would be allowed to conduct mock polling to test the machines that cannot be hacked.
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