Ahmedabad

More than 800 people across six municipal corporations in Gujarat, polling for which took place today, used the online method to cast their votes, the State Election Commission (SEC) said.

“Out of the 1,310, who had registered themselves for online voting, 806 people voted online today,” SEC officials said.

With 305, the number of people who used the e-voting mode were the highest in Vadodara, followed by 231 in Surat, 79 in Ahmedabad, 76 in Rajkot, 61 in Bhavnagar and 54 in Jamnagar, officials said.

After 2010, this is for the second time that the SEC had made the online voting option available to voters in the six municipal corporations.

PTI