Voting Halted Briefly in Mumbai Due to Glitch

• EVM malfunctioned at Balmohan Vidyamandir during BMC elections.
• Voters reported Vishakha Raut's button unresponsive, halting voting.
• Faulty EVM was replaced; polling resumed after a 20-minute delay.

Mumbai: Voting was briefly disrupted at the Balmohan Vidyamandir polling station after a technical malfunction in one of the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs). Several voters complained that the button

corresponding to candidate Vishakha Raut was not responding when pressed.

Following the complaints, the voting process was halted for nearly 20 minutes, officials confirmed. Election authorities immediately inspected the machine and later replaced the faulty EVM to resume smooth polling operations.

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The issue was confirmed by Deepak Sane, election representative of the Thackeray-led Shiv Sena.

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