The large crowd of supporters from political parties gathered outside Kalyan&rsquo;s APMC market polling station, eagerly awaiting the results, ended up waiting longer than expected. Three EVM machines suffered technical glitches, delaying the counting of votes by almost three hours.
<img title="Shiv Sena-BJP candidate Srikanth Shinde secured more than 4.4 lakh votes, emerging as the winner for Kalyan constituency. Pic/Prashant Waydande" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2014/jul/Srikanth-Shinde.jpg" alt="Shiv Sena-BJP candidate Srikanth Shinde secured more than 4.4 lakh votes, emerging as the winner for Kalyan constituency. Pic/Prashant Waydande" /> Shiv Sena-BJP candidate Srikanth Shinde secured more than 4.4 lakh votes, emerging as the winner for Kalyan constituency. Pic/Prashant Waydande
People had started gathering outside the venue from 7 am, and by mid-afternoon, Shiv Sena was leading in the constituency. However, around 3 pm, three polling machines witnessed technical faults and counting resumed only after three hours.
'Unknown error' Milind Gavade, the election returning officer of Kalyan constituency said, &ldquo;The exact cause of glitch is currently unknown. We have informed the Election Commission about the problem and the decision will be taken according.&rdquo;
Excluding the count of non-working machines, Shiv Sena candidate, Dr Srikanth Shinde has emerged as winner against NCP&rsquo;s Anand Paranjpe and MNS&rsquo;s Raju Patil.
Ramesh Bhoir, a resident of Kalyan said, &ldquo;I arrived at the venue around 8 am and wanted to wait till the final count. However, we found out that some machines had stopped working. We had to wait for a few more hours for the results.&rdquo;
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With a huge turnover at the polling station, juice vendors ended up making big bucks within a few hours. Raju, a sugarcane juice seller said, &ldquo;On a normal day, I sell around 50-150 glasses per day, today I sold almost 400 glasses, as the crowd had to wait longer in the sweltering heat because of the delay.&rdquo;

The counting of votes were held up at Kalyan&rsquo;s APMC market polling station, as 3 machines suffered technical glitches

Malfunctioning EVMs delay result by 3 hours at polling station in Kalyan's APMC market

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