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Ridesharing app Blu-Smart is offering a 50% discount on rides within 30km of polling stations, and taxi aggregator Rapido is offering free rides to elderly and disabled voters.
"Different hotels and restaurants will offer different incentives to voters based on their discretion," said PC Rao, president of the hotel association, speaking to the Bangalore Mirror newspaper.
In the 2019 general election, Bengaluru South recorded the lowest voting percentage in Karnataka state at 53.7%, with similarly low turnouts in Bengaluru Central (54.3%) and Bengaluru North (54.7%) compared to the state's total turnout of 68%.
Wonderla, a popular amusement park, is offering discounted tickets to voters, while Deck of Brews, a city pub, is providing free beer to its first 50 voting customers.
The state's high court recently permitted a hotel association to offer free or discounted food as long as it adheres to election guidelines..
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