Goa Elections 2017: Teddy Bears For First-Time Women Voters, Pens For the Men

naji — Pink teddy bears may well have a justified a slot on the altar of participatory democracy.

According to the state's top poll official, Kunal, a unique experiment conducted during the February 4 state assembly elections, which involved giving away 600 teddy bears to first-time women voters across Goa, had paid dividends.

The snuggly teddy bears were given to the early-visiting first-time voters in over 40



model polling booths, one in each of the 40 assembly constituencies in Goa, which went to poll on Saturday.

"As a trend, our pink polling stations got two per cent more voting than the average polling rate in all the other regular polling booths. People received the idea well," Kunal said.