Counting of votes in TN to begin at 8am
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
22.05.2019
Counting of votes polled in Tamil Nadu for Lok Sabha elections as well as 22 assembly byelections will be taken up for counting on May 23 at 8 AM. Postal votes will be counted first and it may take about 30 minutes to complete. After that, the votes polled in EVMs will be taken up for counting, said chief electoral officer Satyabrata Sahoo.
Speaking to reporters at the secretariat, Sahoo said a total of 16,125 officials are involved in the counting across Tamil Nadu. Of them, 15,904 will be involved in Lok Sabha election counting and 225 officials in 22 assembly byelection counting.
“As per the Election Commission rules, VVPAT slips from 5 polling booths in all assembly segments will be counted, at the end of counting EVM votes. A separate table will be set up for VVPAT slip counting. Apart from 5 booths in all assembly segments, VVPAT slips will also be counted in 43 booths, where election officials had failed to reset the EVMs after mock polling, as per the order of Election Commission,” said Sahoo.
Depending on the number of voters, the number of rounds for counting will be taken up. “Tiruvallur Lok Sabha constituency will have 34 rounds of counting, the maximum among all other constituencies. Chennai Central constituency will have just 19 rounds, the lowest number of rounds,” said Sahoo. The party representatives will be allowed to have only a pencil and paper and even pen will not be allowed, he said.
Meanwhile, a DMK team led by the party’s principal secretary T R Baalu called on the CEO and presented a petition asking the EC to allow political party representatives during VVPAT slips counting.
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Chennai:
Counting of votes polled in Tamil Nadu for Lok Sabha elections as well as 22 assembly byelections will be taken up for counting on May 23 at 8 AM. Postal votes will be counted first and it may take about 30 minutes to complete. After that, the votes polled in EVMs will be taken up for counting, said chief electoral officer Satyabrata Sahoo.
Speaking to reporters at the secretariat, Sahoo said a total of 16,125 officials are involved in the counting across Tamil Nadu. Of them, 15,904 will be involved in Lok Sabha election counting and 225 officials in 22 assembly byelection counting.
“As per the Election Commission rules, VVPAT slips from 5 polling booths in all assembly segments will be counted, at the end of counting EVM votes. A separate table will be set up for VVPAT slip counting. Apart from 5 booths in all assembly segments, VVPAT slips will also be counted in 43 booths, where election officials had failed to reset the EVMs after mock polling, as per the order of Election Commission,” said Sahoo.
Depending on the number of voters, the number of rounds for counting will be taken up. “Tiruvallur Lok Sabha constituency will have 34 rounds of counting, the maximum among all other constituencies. Chennai Central constituency will have just 19 rounds, the lowest number of rounds,” said Sahoo. The party representatives will be allowed to have only a pencil and paper and even pen will not be allowed, he said.
Meanwhile, a DMK team led by the party’s principal secretary T R Baalu called on the CEO and presented a petition asking the EC to allow political party representatives during VVPAT slips counting.
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