The counting of votes would start on May 23 at Govindpuram Mandi but result would be delayed for tallying the entire process said the returning officer (RO) and the district magistrate (DM) Ritu Maheswari on Tuesday.
Addressing media persons, the DM said that the outcome of the counting of every round would be uploaded on the election commission's Suvidha portal which could be viewed by the public within 10 minutes of its uploading.
The counting would start at 8:00 am on May 23, but the officers, candidates and their agents would have to reach at Govindpuram Mandi at 7 am as the strong room will be opened and EVMs would be inspected in their presence.
The counting of five assembly constituencies of Ghaziabad parliamentary constituency- Loni, Murad Nagar, Sahibabad, Ghaziabad and Modi Nagar, would be conducted in separate halls while the counting of Dhaulana assembly constituency would be conducted in Hapur district. Each assembly constituency would have round wise counting and each round counting would be uploaded on Election Commission of India (ECI) portal instantly.
The counting of Loni Assembly constituency would be in 36 rounds on 14 tables in a separate hall which contains 498 booths. The total polled votes 2,83,625 vote were casted out of total 4,91,073 vote which are 57.76 per cent of total vote. The counting of 496 booths of Murad Nagar Assembly constituency would be conducted in 36 rounds on 14 tables in a separate hall. The 2,68,580 vote were polled out of 4,43,190 total vote at 60.60 per cent polling. The counting of a 1031 booth of Sahibabad assembly constituency would be in 37 rounds on 28 tables. The total polled vote were 4,69,893 vote out of 9,88,785 vote which is 49.53 per cent polling . The counting of 487 booths of Ghaziabad assemble constituency would be in 35 rounds on 14 tables. The total polled votes are 2,39,172 out of total 4,48,097 vote which is 53 per cent polling. The counting of 404 booths of Modi Nagar Assembly constituency would be in 29 rounds on 14 tables in a separate hall. The polled vote are 2,21,590 out of 3,42,002 vote. The polling percentage is 64.79 percent there said the officer in the press conference.
After counting of vote from EVMs in each assembly segment, the postal vote would be counted and would be added in the total of EVM vote, then the VVPAT slips will be tallied with the EVM vote. In all three components EVM, Postal and VVPAT are found in order the result of every round would be uploaded on Suvidha portal.
To tally the VVPAT, five VVPAT box would be picked up by lottery in each Assembly constituency and would be tallied with the EVM unit. We have received some complaints that mockpoll numbers were not neutralised by polling officers before starting polling so 2 booths in Loni 171 and 478 and 3 booths in Modi Nagar 4, 5 and 257 would be counted separately to correct the error added the officer. In this entire episode of matching EVM vote, postal ballots and 5 per cent random tallying of VVPAT, the result of counting will be delayed added the officer.