India, Dec. 2 -- The number of booths in West Bengal where there are no dead, duplicate and untraceable voters, dropped by around 80% within a span of 24 hours, after the Election Commission of India (ECI) sought reports from district electoral officers (DEOs).

A senior official of the poll panel said that the number of such polling booths with zero uncollectible enumeration forms - booths where there are no dead, duplicate and untraceable voters - was 2,208 on Monday.

"According to the reports sent to the ECI by DEOs from various districts across the state the number of such booths dropped from 2,208 on Monday to 480 on Tuesday," said a poll panel official in Kolkata.

The CEO had directed all the DEOs to thoroughly scrutinise the poll...