All arrangements have been made for counting of votes for seven municipal corporations in Haryana.
The counting for the polls held on June 2 will be held on Tuesday and results declared the same day. More than 17 lakh voters cast their ballots in the polls.
A total of 1,686 candidates are in the fray for the 144 wards of the seven municipal corporations- Ambala, Panchkula, Karnal, Panipat, Hisar, Rohtak and Yamunanagar. All the EVMs have been stored under high security places.
Dharam Vir, state election commissioner said the counting of votes will start from 8 am onwards for seven Municipal Corporations.
As INlD and BJP are taking these elections as semifinal for the lok sabha elections 2014 and contesting on party symbol, election commission Haryana put extra police force to maintain law and order in the state on counting of votes, added Vir.
The counting of votes will be on centralised manner at concerned district level instead of at every polling station, he added.
Dharam Vir said all elections have been conducted with Electronic Voting Machines. like Mumbai, for the first time, the Commission has put the information of polling stations using GIS technique.