Over 600 staff will be involved in counting of Lok Sabha election votes on June 4, says Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner
The Hindu
The Deputy Commissioner and the Election Officer for Dakshina Kannada Lok Sabha constituency M. P. Mullai Muhilan said here on Friday that over 600 staff will be involved in the counting of votes cast in the April 26 elections, at the counting centre at the National Institute of Technology – Karnataka, Surathkal, on June 4.
The Deputy Commissioner and the Election Officer for Dakshina Kannada Lok Sabha constituency M. P. Mullai Muhilan said here on Friday that over 600 staff will be involved in the counting of votes cast in the April 26 elections, at the counting centre at the National Institute of Technology – Karnataka, Surathkal, on June 4.
Addressing presspersons, he said that the strong rooms, where the electronic voting machines have been kept, will be opened between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m. in the presence of the candidates and their party agents. The postal ballots will be counted first at 8 a.m. The counting of votes cast in EVMs will begin at 8.30 a.m.
The EVMs have been kept in eight halls in the order of eight Assembly segments and the postal ballots have been kept in a separate room. The counting will take place in those respective halls. Akanksha Ranjan will be the counting observer.
In all, counting of votes cast in EVMs will be done on 112 tables. The minimum 15 rounds of counting will be in Mangaluru Assembly segment and the maximum 19 rounds of counting will be at Mangaluru City North Assembly segment.
Moodbidri and Puttur Assembly segments each will have 16 rounds of counting while Belthangady, Mangaluru City South and Bantwal Assembly segments will have 18 rounds of counting. There will be 17 rounds of counting of votes cast in Sullia Assembly segment.
The Deputy Commissioner said that the postal votes will be counted on 20 tables. In all, 8,537 postal votes, including home voting, have been cast.
He said that 14,09,653 votes have been cast on the EVMs. In addition, forms for 514 service voters have been issued. Of them 231 forms have been received so far.
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