Paul Paulose

Over three lakh people cast their vote to choose amongst 521 candidates in the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation elections on Sunday. Before actually going to the polling booth, the electorate had to contend with a bizarre voting list. "The age of one of the voters was stated to be 277 years in one list, while another voter was aged `zero' in the list," informed Arun G Shinde of Peasants and Workers Party. Apart from thousands of names missing form the list, "hundreds of names were duplicated,'' said Independent candidate Advocate paul paulose, who put the list on his computer and the alphabetical order revealed the duplications.