From ferrying the elderly and differently-abled in 'dolis' to making arrangements for Covid patients, the Election Commission on Monday ensured people in Goa, Uttarakhand and parts of Uttar Pradesh do not miss out on voting in the assembly elections. The voter turnout reported at 5 pm was 75.29 per cent in Goa and 60.44 per cent in Uttar Pradesh, the poll panel said, while Uttarakhand till 6 pm reported 62.5 per cent.

Voting was held peacefully in all three states, officials said. While on Monday, assembly polls in Goa and Uttarakhand were completed in a single phase, for Uttar Pradesh, today was the second of a seven-phase election. The results will be declared on March 10. According to the commission, special 'divyang dolis' were deployed in Uttarakhand with the help of volunteers from the National Cadet Corps (NCC) for assisting people with disabilities (PwD) and senior citizens to polling stations. In the three states, over 2.19 lakh PwD voters and 4.67 lakh people above 80 years of age were registered to vote across 165 assembly constituencies. Cracking down on electoral malpractices, the commission had made seizures worth Rs 224.71 crores from the three states since the elections were announced on January 8.