Number of invalid votes could be high during Sunday’s polls due to inadequate voter education programmes, stakeholders fear.

For instance, in the column of open category ward members, from which two representatives are elected, one symbol is assigned to one candidate and double symbol to another candidate.

This problem, however, is absent in case of “independent” candidates who have separate symbols for all the candidates. This confusion was evident during a voter education campaign in Kathmandu on Thursday.

“You cannot stamp twice in the column of having double symbol,” Rashmi Gurung, a volunteer mobilised to educate voters at the Sankhamul polling centre in Kathmandu was telling a voter.