Counting to start at 8am, trends to start pouring in 3 hours later
TNN | Feb 11, 2020, 04.40 AM IST
New Delhi: Counting for the 70 assembly seats in Delhi will begin at 8am on Tuesday and trends will start pouring in around 11am. Officials said the votes will be counted at 21 locations in 11 districts. About 2,600 administrative officials will be involved in the process.
Though the official announcement of results will be done only in the evening, Election Commission officials said the winning candidate and the estimated margin of votes will be known by the afternoon. The smaller the size of the constituency, the sooner the result will be announced.
East Delhi district election officer Arun Kumar Mishra said the counting centres have a three-tier security involving the local police, CAPF and paramilitary forces. “The outermost ring will have Delhi Police personnel, while the second ring will have local police and CAPF. The innermost security ring will have paramilitary forces,” he added.
The counting centre at Commonwealth Games Village has been set up as a model centre with state-of-the-art facilities, Mishra said.
In all, 33 counting observers have been appointed to oversee the process. The counting of votes will start with postal ballots. Votes polled in EVMs will begin only after that. The EVM votes will be counted simultaneously at 10-14 tables set up for each assembly segment. Depending on the size of the constituency, the votes will be counted in 10-16 rounds.
After each round, the results will be uploaded on the “Suvidha” mobile app. Once all votes are counted, election officials will randomly pick VVPAT slips from five polling stations in each assembly segment and match the results with those generated by EVMs.
Paper chits with the number of each polling station in an assembly constituency will be put in a container and shuffled in presence of all candidates or their agents. The returning officer will then pick up five slips to tally with the EVM results.
“The paper trail of votes will be kept in separate bundles and then matched with the EVM results. The tabulation of paper trails will be carried out simultaneously. The result will be declared after completing the entire exercise,” said an official.
TNN | Feb 11, 2020, 04.40 AM IST
New Delhi: Counting for the 70 assembly seats in Delhi will begin at 8am on Tuesday and trends will start pouring in around 11am. Officials said the votes will be counted at 21 locations in 11 districts. About 2,600 administrative officials will be involved in the process.
Though the official announcement of results will be done only in the evening, Election Commission officials said the winning candidate and the estimated margin of votes will be known by the afternoon. The smaller the size of the constituency, the sooner the result will be announced.
East Delhi district election officer Arun Kumar Mishra said the counting centres have a three-tier security involving the local police, CAPF and paramilitary forces. “The outermost ring will have Delhi Police personnel, while the second ring will have local police and CAPF. The innermost security ring will have paramilitary forces,” he added.
The counting centre at Commonwealth Games Village has been set up as a model centre with state-of-the-art facilities, Mishra said.
In all, 33 counting observers have been appointed to oversee the process. The counting of votes will start with postal ballots. Votes polled in EVMs will begin only after that. The EVM votes will be counted simultaneously at 10-14 tables set up for each assembly segment. Depending on the size of the constituency, the votes will be counted in 10-16 rounds.
After each round, the results will be uploaded on the “Suvidha” mobile app. Once all votes are counted, election officials will randomly pick VVPAT slips from five polling stations in each assembly segment and match the results with those generated by EVMs.
Paper chits with the number of each polling station in an assembly constituency will be put in a container and shuffled in presence of all candidates or their agents. The returning officer will then pick up five slips to tally with the EVM results.
“The paper trail of votes will be kept in separate bundles and then matched with the EVM results. The tabulation of paper trails will be carried out simultaneously. The result will be declared after completing the entire exercise,” said an official.
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