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Dial 155212 for your polling booth

Special Correspondent

The helpline will function from
8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
It has a common number throughout the State

Bangalore: All that the voter has to do is to state his or her name and the pin code of the residential area in the Assembly constituency by calling the helpline. The person who receives your telephone call will inform you the exact address of the polling booth within 45 seconds.

Announcing the setting up of the election helpline by the State Election Commission in collaboration with the Karnataka State Beverages Corporation at its office, Chief Electoral Officer M.N. Vidyashankar said that this had been done with a view to assisting the voters, who could have confusion owing to delimitation of constituencies in finding their polling booths.

Instead of searching for the polling booths on the day of exercising their franchise in a hurry, he said that the voters could contact the helpline. This facility is available to all voters through out the State on a common number 155212.

For Bangalore Urban and Bangalore Rural Districts, in order to make a clear distinction, owing to the same STD code, a suffix (1) for Bangalore Urban and (2) for Bangalore Rural is attached to 155212, i.e.1552121 for Bangalore Urban and 1552122 for Bangalore Rural district.

Mr. Vidyashankar said that a 15-desk helpline has been established for the 28 constituencies. It would work from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. which may extend by two hours on May 8 and 9 and in the morning hours on May 9. All the districts have helplines with the common number 155212 established in the respective district election offices.

He clarified that the voters need not have to worry to show their voter ID cards and could vote by showing one of the 19 alternative ID cards, including senior citizen cards and the ID cards given to the employees by the town municipal and city municipal councils where they are working. Even if one member of the family has an ID card, he or she could take the other voters to the booth.

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