Control units with snags not to be counted
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‘If votes polled in such units are less than the margin of votes between the first and second candidates, they will not be taken up for counting’
Under the brand new guidelines of the Election Commission of India, the management units (CUs) of digital voting machines (EVMs) will not be repaired after they malfunction through the counting of votes on May 2.
“If any CU develops a snag, no effort will be taken to repair it but such units will be kept under the custody of the returning officer and the counting of votes in other CUs will continue without stoppage,” Virudhunagar District Election Officer R. Kannan mentioned.
In the sooner elections, such units had been taken up for restore to allow counting. But below the brand new guidelines, if the votes polled in such units are lower than the margin of votes between the primary and second candidates on the finish of the completion of counting in all different CUs, these units will not be taken up for counting, he mentioned.
“For example, if 800 votes are polled in a particular CU (as per the 17C record) that has developed a technical fault and the margin of votes between the first and second candidates is over 800, that CU need not be taken for counting as it will not change the outcome. Instead, the votes [here 800] will be deleted from the total number of votes counted in that particular constituency,” Mr. Kannan mentioned.
In the sooner elections, if the show part within the CU failed to show the outcomes, officers would connect auxiliary show units to retrieve the outcomes. Otherwise printers too had been used to get the outcomes, Returning Officer for Sivakasi C. Dinesh Kumar mentioned.
In case the margin between the primary and second candidates is lower than the variety of votes polled within the malfunctioned CU, as a substitute of repairing it, the printed paper slips of the respective voter verifiable paper audit path (VVPAT) units will be counted, Mr. Kannan added.
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