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Counting of Votes at RPD College on Tuesday

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Now that the voting is over and the candidates are taking a breather, the citizens are busy in giving their opinions with reasons as to who could win the elections, from a small tea shop to the lavish ones point of discussion hovers around the who will win.

Well who will be our MLA’s would be decided on 15-05-2018 and the entire counting process will be held at RPD College, Tilakwadi Belagavi.

Counting of votes is the last major step towards the culmination of the election process. Normally, the counting for an entire assembly constituency will be done at one place

Persons allowed in counting hall:
i) counting supervisors and counting assistants;
ii) persons authorised by the Election Commission;
iii) public servants on duty in connection with the election;
iv) candidates, their election agents and counting agents.

Maximum 16 tables are put up in a counting hall
The counting will be done on the table arranged in rows. The tables in each row will be serially numbered. 

On each counting table, the seating arrangement for the counting agents shall be made having regard to the following categories or priority, namely:-
(i) candidates of National parties;
(ii) candidates of State parties;
(iii) candidates of State parties of other States who have been permitted to use their reserved symbols in the Constituency;
(iv) candidates of registered-unrecognised parties;
(v) independent candidates.

Every person inside the counting hall is required by law to maintain, and aid in maintaining, the secrecy of voting and should not communicate to any person any information calculated to violate such secrecy.

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Actual Counting:

The counting of postal ballot papers will be taken up first. 

EVM’s received from the polling stations will be distributed to the various counting tables beginning with the EVM of polling station No.1 being distributed to table No.1 and so on.

Only one EVM will be opened at a time for the purpose of checking of identity marks. 

Power switch provided in the rear compartment of the control unit will be put to ‘ON’ position. The ‘ON’ lamp in the Display Section of the control unit will then glow green.
(ii) The paper seal over the ‘Result I’ Button provided beneath the upper aperture of the inner cover of Result Section will be pierced through.
(iii) The ‘Result I’ Button will then be pressed.
(iv) At the ‘Result I’ button being so pressed, the total number of votes recorded for each candidate at the polling station shall be displayed automatically in the Display Panels of the control unit.

Supposing, there are nine contesting candidates and the total number of votes polled at the polling station would be displayed serially one after another.

As the votes secured by each candidate are displayed on the Display Panels of the control unit, the counting supervisor shall, as mentioned above, record the number of such votes separately in respect of each candidate in ‘Part II – Result of Counting’ of Form 17C.

The officer incharge of compiling the final result and preparing the Final Result Sheet in Form 20 shall make entries in that form showing the votes polled by each candidate polling stationwise, strictly in accordance with the entries made in ‘Part II – Result of Counting’ of Form 17C in respect of each polling station.

In case Equality of votes

If two candidates contesting for any seat happen to secure the highest number of votes and their votes are equal in number the result will be decided by lot.
Example- If in a constituency A, B, C and D are the contesting candidates and the total number of votes they have secured is as follows-
A – 12,703
B – 17,567
C – 17,567
D – 16,394
A lot will be drawn between B and C, who have each polled the highest number of votes and the person whose name is drawn will be elected.

9 thoughts on “Counting of Votes at RPD College on Tuesday”

    • Do u have a problem with the information shared. it is for the knowledge of the citizens to know how the process is conducted. What is the issue on this ?

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      • Dear Editor, you are correct in providing details. Awareness is required. I learnt a lot from this article. There are many issues (in this country) which arose due to lack of awareness. Transparency in democratic system is the need of the hour. Well done!

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  1. The Entire day business is getting affected on that road…the counting would have taken in outskirts of city like R C University, Suvarna Souda, Etc….so that nohing is affected to public….

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