South 24 Parganas, May 2 -- Repolling in one of the polling booths in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district was halted for over an hour on Saturday morning after an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) malfunctioned.

Various electors had to wait in the queue for over an hour amid the malfunction as repolling started early morning at 7 AM across 15 polling booths in the Diamond Harbour and Magrahat Paschim assembly constituencies.

Expressing frustration over the incident, one voter asked the officials to clarify the situation or, instead, just shut the booth.

"If it is not happening (voting), close the booth, tell us and we will go home. Why are we standing here? Why are we here? It has been more than half an hour, they should close it, s...