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Indore: With EVMs in strong room, officials gear up for counting

After polling concluded successfully, the district election office has now started making preparations for counting day on May 23.
Indore: With EVMs in strong room, officials gear up for counting
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INDORE: After polling concluded successfully, the district election office has now started making preparations for counting day on May 23.
The election officials said that around 500 employees will be roped in for counting and 14 tables have been set up for each assembly constituency.
Maximum 29 rounds will be held for the state’s biggest assembly constituency – Indore-V, which has 402 polling booths and recorded 66.91 voter turnout, while counting for Indore-III assembly, which has witnessed 67.38 per cent voting at its 220 voting stations, will be carried out in 16 rounds.
Votes of Indore-I assembly will be counted in 27 rounds followed by Indore-II (26 rounds), Sanwer and Rau (23 rounds each), Depalpur while results of Indore-IV and Mhow assembly constituency will be out after 22 rounds (each) of counting.
Results of Mhow assembly will be added in total votes to be counted for Dhar parliamentary constituency.
District election officer Lokesh Kumar Jatav will hold a meeting with officials concerned at Residency Kothi on Tuesday to ensure hassle-free work. ECI has appointed four observers for counting of votes - Chandrasekhar Khare for Depalpur, Indore-I and Indore-II, Virendra Sharma for Indore-III and Indore-IV, MR Ravi Kumar for Indore-V and Mhow and Anil Agrawal for Rau and Sanwer assembly constituency.
“The EVMs have been sealed and kept at Nehru Stadium’s strong rooms. First round of training has been provided to counting officials while infrastructure-related work has also been completed,” Jatav said.
As per ECI’s instructions, slips of 5 VVPAT machines from each assembly constituencies will be counted before declaring final results. However, it will delay the results.
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