<span style="color: #222222;">In Jharkhand, voting for the fourth and final phase of three-tier State Panchayat elections today was passed off peacefully in 1299 panchayats of 72 blocks of 23 districts. <br />''<br />''State Election Commission Secretary Radheshyam Prasad told AIR News that about 68.99 percent of voters exercised their franchise, in the final phase of the Panchayat elections. <br />''<br />''Mr Prasad said that the voting percentage in the third phase remained more than all other phases. Meanwhile, the average voting in all four phases of Panchayat Elections in Jharkhand remained 69.64 percent.<br />''<br />''Voting was held from 7 am in the morning to 3 pm in the afternoon amidst tight security at 15 thousand 875 polling stations. The counting of votes for the third and fourth phase of Panchayat elections will be held on May 31.<br />''<br />'' The three-tier Panchayati Raj system will be reinstated in the State in the month of June.</span>