panaji the chief election commissioner dr s y quraishi on tuesday said that the election commission of india is examining the complaint against aldona congress mla dayanand narvekar and is seeking legal opinion on it before it recommends what action the goa chief electoral officer should take on the complaint former goa cricket association member shekhar salkar had demanded before that narvekar a forme minister should be disqualified from contesting the upcoming polls on the grounds that he allegedly distributed sports kits and cheques while the model code of conduct was in force the ceo had referred the complaint to the eci briefing the media after holding meetings with various political parties election officials police and the bureaucracy quraishi said that the eci is satisfied with the poll preparedness in goa however he assured to tighten vigil on pollrelated malpractices in the state quraishi addressed the media in the presence of fellow election commissioners v s sampath h s brahma and goas poll icon remo fernandes asked about what kind of control the election authorities were exercising on the money being spent by prospective candidates now quraishi lamented that the powers of the election authorities start from the date the candidates file their nomination papers and not prior to that he also warned state election officials of strict action if they were found guilty of partisanship towards political parties the cec expressed happiness that goa has 100 coverage of electoral photoidentity cards and almost 100 coverage of photographs on electoral rolls quraishi also said that the number of polling stations in goa has gone up extraordinarily from 1000odd to 1612 which is a net increase of 60 this has created a problem of organizing adequate security for all the polling stations he said adding that 98 hypersensitive polling stations have been identified in goa where proper security will be deployed while goa has the distinction of being the first state to use electronic voting machines in the entire country it would also be the first state to have the poll monitoring system throughout the state during the march elections he also said that on national voters day on january 25 2012 the election commission of india issued voter cards to 38 crore youth on that one day making it the biggest youth empowerment exercise in the whole world quraishis sentiments were summed up by election commissioner h s bhramas singlesentence appeal to voters making the country strong and great is in your handselections 2012 newsgoa assembly elections 2012