I hear " I did not whether ..." after ""the polling station". In addition, I don't know the point of such phrase in this context, especially when the quest is trying to interupt the reporter. Can you please help me with that?
I don't hear anything remotely like that after "polling station", so I'm completely baffled. Perhaps some of our BrE speakers can help. Ems is offline for a bit but @teechar, @Tdol, @5jj, @jutfrank, or @Rover_KE may be able.
By the way, I think in the momentary pause he's just hunting for a word.
It's fast mving speech where we may get the gist rather than every word. I heard where that too. I would not want to try to transcribe this part of the conversation.
He means that whoever it is he's referring to (what's-his-face) wasn't acting seriously. It was a joke. I don't know the details but the interviewee is dismissing the presenter's point by saying the reported incident was not genuine.