Poll booths face threat from Elephants

Election Poll rigging by Elephants!!!!!!!!!!!! No No No...................Election officials in Meghalaya state of India are facing an elephantine problem to ensure that voting for March three polls is not disrupted by marauding pachyderms.

Playing safe, election authorities are marking several booths as "sensitive" not from a communal angle or law and order factor but being vulnerable to possible attacks from elephants in the light of previous experience.

Officials here said a scenario like a herd of drunk wild elephants moving dangerously near an election booth, chasing away election officials and destroying electronic voting machines is very much in the realm of possibility. Read more..............................Poll booths face threat from elephants in Meghalaya

Get Weird India Updates by e-mail