Owing to ensuring physical distancing and COVID-19 safety norms there would be 25,000 additional polling booths in Tamil Nadu and the voting time will be extended by an hour. This means that the total voting booths would go up from over 68,000 to 93,000. The announcement to this effect was made by Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora, during his two-day visit, along with a team of election officials to review poll preparedness in the state.
He emphasised that efforts would be taken to ensure inducement-free and Covid-19-safe elections. The parliamentary by-poll to the Kanyakumari constituency is also to be held along with the Assembly elections to 234 seats.
Regarding requests to hold the election in the last week of April, the CEC said that many political parties had asked for the same due to exams, intense summer, and festivals among others. The CEC added that all sensitivities would be taken into consideration before announcing the election dates.
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