Uttarakhand CEO Radha Raturi said that 1300 sensitive and 680 extra- sensitive polling booths are spread over 43 of the 70 Assembly constituencies.
Although in Uttarakhand, the number of voters stands at 738100 it would increase as more people would register in the coming days till January 17. “The people, who are yet to register themselves, can visit the election commission office and get registered till January 17,” she added.
This time, the candidates’ election symbols and their photographs will be there on the electronic voting machines (EVM) to enable the voters to recheck at the time of voting, she said. Besides, this time ECI is using VVPAT (voter verified paper audit trail) in four Assembly constituencies, one each in four districts, at Dharampur in Dehradun district, BHEl at Ranipur in Haridwar, at Haldwani in Nainital district and at Rudrapur in Udham Singh Nagar.
With the announcement, four committees- media certification & monitoring committee (MCMC), model code of conduct Committee (MCCC), flying squad (FS) and expenditure monitoring committee (EMC) have come into force. While MCMC will keep vigil on the media activity MCCC will be vigilant on the government servants and FS will check anti- election activities like distribution of liquor and narcotics aside from checking whether the licensed guns are surrendered after certification or not. EMC on its part will monitor on the candidates and the expenditure to be incurred by the political parties during the electioneering.