The counting of votes polled in Doiwala assembly bypolls will be held at ITI campus, Doiwala on July 25. All the Electronic Voting Machines used for polling are stored in the strong room at ITI campus, Doiwala. With the deployment of additional personnel of Central Armed Police Force and Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC), security has been beefed up at the strong room with three CCTV cameras being placed around the strong room, said Dehradun district magistrate and district election officer Chandresh Kumar Yadav while interacting with media persons on Tuesday.
Yadav said that assembly bypoll was completed peacefully in Doiwala constituency with the deployment of adequate police force at each polling centre. A total of 54.54 per cent voters had exercised their franchise in the assembly bypoll. At Government Inter College, Balawala, a voter whose vote was cast by another person of the same name was also allowed to vote separately (trade vote). Trade vote is counted in case of equal votes received by two candidates after results, he added.
The election officer said that all the EVMs were stored in strong room which is being observed 24/7 by CAPF and PAC personnel at ITI Doiwala. Any political party can depute its agent to oversee the strong room from the monitoring room where TV has been
kept to check the CCTV
camera footage.