Reportedly Andhra Pradesh CEO Gopalakrishna Dwivedi said "Some news channels are reporting that 30 percent of the EVMs are not working, which is not correct. In total, we have 45,959 booths, and we are using around 92,000 EVMs. Meanwhile we got 344 issues and 25 are still pending”.
As per report EVM glitches result in low voter turnout till 9 am 10.62%, Srikakulam with 10 percent, Vizainagaram -4.8 percent, Visakhapatnam - 6.1 percent, East Godavari - 12.36 percent, West Godavari - 8.67 with percent, Krishna - 3.96 percent, Guntur - 7.0 percent, Prakasam - 7.9 percent, Nellore - 7.83 percent, Chittoor - 10.33 percent, Kurnool - 18.1 percent, Kadapa - 7.68 percent, Ananthapuram - 10.62 percent and the total polling till 9 am - 10.62 percent.
Moreover Kurnool constituency falls in one of Andhra Pradesh's Maoist affected districts. Apparently the contest here is between BJP's Dr PV Parthasarthi, Congress’ Ahmed Ali Khan, CPM K Prabhakara Reddy, YSR Congress Party's Sanjeev Kumar and TDP’s Kotla Surya Prakash Reddy.
