THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: There will be no 'NOTA' button on the voting machine in the upcoming local body elections. This is replaced with an end button. That too, only for elections to district, village and block panchayats. There is no such facility in the municipality and corporation elections. People with no interest in any candidates used to press the NOTA button on the voting machine to express their disagreement. The 'end' button works in a similar way.

In a three-tier panchayat (district, block, village), if you want to vote only for a candidate at any one level and skip the others, you can do that by pressing the end button. If you want to vote only for a district panchayat candidate, you can do that and press the end button. The same method is used for the other two levels.

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