EC neglects to take down the posters from government school voting places

Coimbatore: Despite the polls finishing on April 19, voter facilitation posters (VFPs) that were affixed to polling places in a number of the city’s government schools have not been taken down.
In accordance with Election Commission guidelines, VFPs are placed outside the wall, close to each polling place door. Contesting candidates’ names, party names, emblems, and addresses are shown in VFPs.

Additionally, certain placards identifying poll workers and authorities are put within the booths.
Recently, supporters from corporations and non-governmental organizations painted the walls of several government schools. VFPs have now vandalized these walls, with some of them partly ripped.
“The Election Commission is still using the age-old practice of pasting VFPs using strong adhesives on the walls outside polling booths,” a government school teacher remarked.

In all booths, whether a school has six or ten, VFPs and other posters are placed.
Alternatively, the Election Commission could maintain a common flex with information on the candidates running for office at the voting place’s entry. The instructor said that the Election Commission needs to provide funding so that the schools may take down the VFPs and, if necessary, repaint the walls.
“We finished the painting work a week before the polling date,” a corporate educator said. Ten of the school’s eighteen classrooms served as voting places. Ten polling places had around 6,000 voters turn up to cast their ballots.
Election authorities appointed workers to handle all the preparations prior to the polling day. However, no one was there to take out the posters, teacups, or trash after the polls closed. The government and company offered us no assistance in cleaning the campus after the voting. Election officials must assume responsibility for returning the campus to its original state,” the speaker said.
Voting materials for voting places were supplied by the Election Commission, according to Kranthi Kumar Pati, the district election officer and collector for Coimbatore.
“We will give local organizations the go-ahead to organize a separate campaign to clean the campuses and walls of schools where elections were held.”