The exercise, which began on Sunday at the office of the Manipur chief electoral officer in Lamphelpat here, is being conducted under the supervision of three special ECI observers - West Bengal chief electoral officer Sunil Gupta, police observer D K Pandey, and director of the IT ministry Gaurav Dwivedi.
A mismatch was found between the photographs clicked in the polling booths and those in the electoral rolls for a large number of voters, pointing clearly at proxy voting. The ECI will take a call on conducting repoll in booths where the discrepancies have been noted on the basis of reports by the three observers.
On January 28, Manipur went to the polls to elect 60 MLAs for the 10th state assembly amid widespread booth rigging and violence, which prompted the ECI to order repoll at 34 polling stations in the five hill districts of Senapati, Chandel, Tamenglong, Ukhrul and Senapati. The repoll were held on February 4.
The special observers, who landed in Imphal on Sunday morning, would examine the merits of the demand for repoll in other places after seeing the comparison study report.
The ECI has already said that repoll would be conducted if the voters' photographs taken on the poll day do not match those in the electoral roll.
The photo comparison task was taken up to verify complaints of proxy voting and poll malpractices. Over 85 complaint letters demanding repoll in various polling stations have been filed by candidates from to different political parties.
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