Raipur, Nov 12 (IT): Have you ever felt too lazy to go out and vote? ("Uh. The queues are sooo long.") Well, this morning, for one woman in Chhattisgarh, even being a hundred years old wasn't an excuse.

ANI, the news agency that reported the woman's age, said she arrived at a polling station in Dornapal this morning to vote in the first phase of Chhattisgarh's state election. Eighteen constituencies, all in Naxal-affected districts, are up for grabs today.

The woman wasn't named or quoted, but ANI did post pictures. Think about it. Very few people were alive when our democracy was born. Isn't it inspiring to see them continue to participate in it after so many decades?

Later, ANI reported that another woman, 103-year-old Sona Bai, voted in Gorgunda's Devarpalli. Her son carried her to the polling station.

Chhattisgarh is one of five states that will soon head to the polls to elect new assemblies. Three of them -- Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan -- are governed by the BJP, and the current round of polls is widely seen as a "semi-final" before next year's general election.

India Today's Political Stock Exchange survey, or PSE, suggests that the BJP faces a neck-neck contest in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, and a debacle in Rajasthan.