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“Midway through voting, a man with a ‘Boat’ symbol ID peeked into my voting booth. I asked what he was doing there and he said, ‘No, I’m making sure that you are voting right’”.

At this point, the voter asked him to leave, but the man had noticed that he had not voted for ‘boat’.

“He looked at me sternly and said, ‘Oh, so you voted for that symbol? Get out of here.’ He then exited the curtained area. I followed him out and saw him pointing at me and screaming at others present, ‘Didn’t you see this [profanity] cast her vote for that symbol? Who let her in? Make sure this symbol gets no vote in this station’.

“I asked why he was screaming profanities but he refused to engage with me, and instead coerced the officers to give my four-digit number and then walked inside the curtained area. When I questioned this and asked everyone there why he went in there with my number, they just told me to leave.”

The voter tried finding the presiding officer, but failed, and alleged that the guards too did nothing.