Master trainers Dr Mahendra Kumar Pandey and PC Soni, as per the instructions of collector and district electoral officer Dr S Bharti Dasan, on Friday imparted first round training to vote counting employees and micro observers at Boys Higher Secondary School Surajpur.
As postal votes will be counted in Ambikapur, counting of votes will be started in Surajpur through EVMs on May 16 from 8.30 am. As the counting of votes through EVMs is completely legal, the figures registered in it would be considered as true. Through line main EVM control unit will be sent in to sealing room, where the battery will be removed after opening the candidate block.
The confidential seal of the election commission will be put on the outside of the result block and similarly, the confidential seal will be put on the result block also. The complete control unit will securely be put under the control of the treasury officer.The master trainers informed the counting staff that the control unit, the main component of EVM, would be brought from the strong room with full security on the tables in the counting hall through line main. In the first round, 1 to 14 machines will be brought on the 14 tables of the hall.
On reaching the control units on the table, the control unit carrying cases, the seal on the arrow of the handle, the address tag placed by the presiding officer on both sides of the carrying box will be checked and tally the ballot account of the presiding officer received from the strong room with the control unit number. On finding the control unit number and the address tag put on the result block intact, the result block seal will be broke open.
After completion of the first round of counting on all the 14 tables, the figures will be collected and after the signature of the ARs, these figures will go to the tabulation room. Polling booth-wise figures will be prepared in document 20 and on the completion of counting of assembly constituency, the Assembly constituency-wise figures will be registered in document 20 part-2.