Mumbai, Jan. 15 -- Following complaints by voters on Thursday that marker pens used by officials to mark voters' fingers are easily erasable, the Maharashtra State Election Commission in a statement said that orders regarding the use of marker pens to apply 'indelible ink' on voters' fingers were issued in 2011, and that adequate safeguards are in place to ensure a person cannot vote again.
Several voters from across booths in suburban Mumbai's Goregaon, Andheri, Malad, Powai and Kandivali alleged that ordinary marker pens were used by election officials to ink fingers after votes were cast. With no prior notification about such a deviation from the standard practice of using only government manufactured indelible ink, voters raised questi...