hi, i was delegated to work as a presiding officer in one of the booth in 24pgs WB. let me tell my story. my first obstacle came when i found out that one of my polling officer had not turned up. it took me 4 hrs and a literate threat that it was administration's duty to provide me with an alternative person that i was finally given a person. the next hurdel was the transport, i along with my party members waited patiently until 5-30 pm when the other two party could assemble. finally we were on our way. the bus took us on a 2hrs journey to the outskirts of the sunderbans. from here the bus would go no more. there was simply no road. my party still had some more distance to go. so we hired a mechanised van (bhatbhoti). that took us along the bumpy road for next 1/2 hrs. ofcourse charging us 3times the normal fare. finally when we reached, it was a place just as described above. there was no electricity, infact you couldnot close the doors from inside. and we reached after darkness. we arranged for some kerosin and hired a lamp (hajak). and wenton with our paper works. strangely as it may sound, the election went on very smooth. so much so not a single challengerd vote or tendered (when someone else has voted for you) vote happened.i had about 900 voters and there was 93% turnout. but the entire process was compleasted by 6-30. our ordeal started after the poll, as we returned back to the bus, we found out that the other two party who had much less voters were yet to
