An Election Commission official in Guna, and two in Indore died due to cardiac arrest during the ongoing Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, news agency ANI reported.

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While polling process was peaceful in the first half of the day, police managed to seize campaign material from BJP's polling agents from a polling booth in Saint Mary's, Bhopal as it was within 200 meters of a polling booth. One person was taken to custody. Meanwhile in Dabra, in MP's Gwalior district, an EVM was not working in polling booth number 178 for a few minutes, but later it was reported that it was functioning normally. There were other reports about faulty EVMs, but nothing has been officially confirmed by the Election Commission.

1.80 lakh security personnel, including those drawn from central paramilitary forces, have been deployed on duty to ensure peaceful polling in the state, where the ruling BJP and opposition Congress will vie for supremacy.

The battle of ballots in Madhya Pradesh is just months ahead of the Lok Sabha polls slated in the first half of 2019.

The state has 5.04 crore eligible voters. According to the final electoral roll, the state has 5,04,95,251 voters - 2,63,01,300 males, 2,41,30,390 females, 1,389 third gender and 62,172 postal electors.