21.   The ballot papers will include symbols for illiterate voters.

22.   For the benefit of illiterate voters, the parties were identified by symbols such as a bee, a fish or a fountain pen.

23.   Illiterate voters were allowed to take someone into the polling booth with them.

24.   Illiterate voters put their thumb impression next to the symbol of their candidate on the ballot paper, folded them and put them in a box.

25.   A row of dots equal to each candidate number is included for illiterate voters to count.

26.   And in another station, illiterate voters were scouted out by campaign workers offering to vote in their place.

27.   Each candidate is given a symbol which will be placed on campaign posters and ballots so that illiterate voters can recognize him.

28.   Election symbols play an important role here because of the large number of illiterate voters.

29.   The symbols, crucial for illiterate voters, are as varied and eccentric as many of the candidates and range from a banana to a more populist cricket bat.

30.   Some self-styled illiterate voters even gave judges brochures bearing the names of their preferred candidates and asked them to mark these names on the official voting list.