600 K'taka booths to be run by women, 10 by disabled people
As many as 600 of the 58,000 polling booths in Karnataka will be operated by women and known as "pink booths", Chief Electoral Officer Sanjiv Kumar has said. Over 10 booths will be run by disabled people. Over 5 crore people will be casting their votes on May 12 using 80,000 Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trails and Electronic Voting Machines. 