From bogus voting and fakeu00a0ID cards to officials who marked the wrong finger with indelible ink, Mid Day brings you a lowdown on all that went terribly wrong with the civic polls

Dummy voters at yesterday's civic polls

What happened:
MiD DAY caught on camera some Congress workers preparing fake Electoral Photo Identity Cards (EPIC) and using these to cast fake votes.

Modus operandi: Dummy voters, brought in on Saturday, were made to masquerade as genuine voters. Their photos taken on Saturday night.

Yesterday, as genuine voters steamed into polling booths to cast votes, the Congress workers paid the genuine voters from Azad Nagar (ward 141) Rs 1,000 each to surrender their EPICs for a few hours and told not to cast their vote.



The Congress workers noted the genuine voters' details from their EPICs and entered these on fake cards kept ready. Photos of the fake voters were then pasted on them. These fake cards were designed as 'employment' identity cards.

The Election Commission (EC) has approved use of any photo identity, including office identity card, as valid ID proof to cast one's vote.