Dirty election system; P C George against absence of NOTA

POONJAR: Former MLA P C George harshly criticized the absence of NOTA in the voting machine. He said that this is a dirty electoral system and ignorance on the part of the Election Commission.

There was no NDA candidate in P C George’s ward. It was in this context P C George blamed the absence of NOTA. In local body elections, the voting machine had an end button instead of the 'NOTA' button and that too only for elections to district, village and block panchayats. There is no such facility in municipality and corporation elections.

NOTA is a button on the voting machine for those who are not interested in any candidate in the election to express their disagreement. The 'End' button is the same method.
In a three-tier panchayat (district, block and village), if you are interested in voting only for a candidate at any one level, you can press that end button and skip the others. If you are interested in voting only for a district panchayat candidate, you can press that end button only. The same method is the same for the other two levels.

If you vote at only one level and do not press the end button, the polling officer will press the button and set the machine. 'NOTA' (None of the Above) facility is available in the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections. In the last Lok Sabha elections, NOTA received 1,58,376 votes in the state, which is 0.7 percent of the total votes.