Election Commission of India (ECI) has made elaborate security for counting of votes of all the 403 assembly seats on coming Saturday where polling was held in seven phases, between February 11 till March 8.
The ECI officials claimed here on Thursday that there would be 78 counting centers with 72 districts going for single counting centers and three districts of Azamgarh, Kushinagar and Amethi will hold counting in two centers. Stringent three tier security cover would be made at all the counting centers with 187 companies of central forces along with PAC, State police and Home Guard jawans would be deployed.
All the counting process would be video graphed and except for the observers no one will be allowed to enter with mobile phones. There would be 14 tables for each assembly constituency counting where micro observers would be deployed for monitoring its fairness. First the postal ballots would be counted and thereafter the EVMs would be taken up. One round of counting will end after tabulation of 14 EVMs, one in each table, and the constituency which has less number of booths will get their results first.