The first phase polling in the State was delayed by an hour in some booths on Thursday morning as the electronic voting machines (EVMs) went out of order.
Sources in the Chief Electoral Office (CEO) here said the EVMs went out of operation in Sanakhemundi and Sorada in Ganjam district, two booths in Gajapati, one at Baliguda in Kandhamal, two at Dahana and one at Umarkote in Nabarangpur, one Kushanpali in Birmaharajpur in Sudargarh, three in Kuchinda in Bargarh, one each at loisingha and Patnagarh in Balangir and one each at Charbati, Binakhari and Bhitara booths in Sambalpur district.