ECI also informed that 75.95 lakh voters are available on e-roll till January 1, (Male: 39, 23,492 and Female: 35,72,029 and 151 Third Gender electors). NRI voters are nil. Besides, 1,56,894 new voters have been enrolled out of which 53,457 are the first -time voters in 18-19 age cohort. Names of around 42000 voters who had migrated to other places or died, were deleted from the voters’ list. While 82 percent voters are happy with the way the election is being conducted 18 percent are not.
EVM machines will be used in all the Assembly constituencies while VVPATs will be used in four selected constituencies - Dharampur, BHEl Ranipur, Haldwani and Rudrapur.