The Election Commission has mobilised people to visit voters at their doorstep and teach them how to cast vote but locals said volunteers and facilitators have yet to reach villages in Saptari district.

Though volunteers and facilitators have been mobilised across the district, they have yet to visit villages. Local political leaders said people, especially women, of backward communities should be taught about voting as the ballot box is large and thus confusing. Citing the high number of invalid votes in the first phase of polling in three provinces, they said people might be unable to vote correctly without help.

Satya Narayan Yadav of Tilathi Koilathi Village Council-8 said volunteers and facilitators had not visited them with sample ballots. (PR)