14/05/24 06:07 AM IST
These include ones in vulnerable areas, areas with abnormal law & order situations, those with unusually high ( over 90%, with over 75% votes polled in favour of one candidate), or low ( under 10%) voter turnout rates.
Polling stations where re-polling is held due to electoral offences, with instances of violence on polling day in the last five years, or with a disproportionate number of Absentee, Shifted, and Dead (ASD) voters may also be deemed critical polling stations by the ECI.
In such stations, the ECI conducts pre-poll confidence building initiatives, gets regular feedback from candidates and intelligence agencies, legally binds identified trouble-mongers, and uses preventive detention under appropriate sections of law. On the day of the poll, Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) and Micro Observers are deployed.
Source- Indian Express
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