<span style="color: #222222;">In Jharkhand, voting for the first phase of three-tier panchayat elections today was completed peacefully in one thousand 127 panchayats of 72 blocks of 21 districts today.<br />''<br />''State Election Commission Secretary Radheshyam Prasad told AIR News that according to a preliminary report, about 68 percent of polling was registered in the first phase, however, the final voting percentage will be released after final data will be received from all districts.<br />''<br />''Mr. Prasad informed that all registered voters who reached inside the polling stations till 3 pm were allowed to cast their votes. He further said that in some constituencies of Chatra, Seraikela-Kharsawan, Latehar, and Bokaro districts, polling has been postponed due to errors in ballot papers.</span>