gandhinagar the men who run the government came out in huge numbers to elect a municipal body for the state capital gandhinagar which is the smallest of the eight municipal corporations saw 5962 per cent turnout in its first civic elections held on tuesday the city set a new milestone in technology for democracy registering the highest number of electronic votes so farof the 670 voters registered online in gandhinagar 517 voted the state government launched evoting for the first time in the elections to six municipal corporations last october where only 183 registered throughout the state of these only 124 voted even in cities like ahmedabad where only 64 were registered online only 40 per cent actually votedthe overall turnout in gandhinagar was 15 per cent higher than the 44 per cent that voted in ahmedabad the results will be out on thursday amc commissioner ip gautam was among the votersstate information commissioner v thiruppugazh was not allowed to vote at the booth in sector 19 because he was registered as an evoter the officer on duty told me that since i was registered as an online voter i cannot vote at the booth this shows that the administration was alert and had informed the officers of the online voters in their booths he returned home and corrected the snag on his computer and managed to cast his vote online later he said only when you have an elected body you can demand better thingsmaximum evoters were residents of infocity area and many of them were young officials however said the turnout was bigger in rural areas of the corporation areas like indroda borij and palej saw 70 per cent turnout which was the highest in the entire corporation area while the lowest voter per cent was in ward number 9 at 5338 per cent which covers sectors 67 mainly occupied by class i and ii government officers only one incident of technical failure in an evm was reported from ward number eight most bureaucrats came out late to vote the government had declared an official holiday because of polling inputs by kevin antao