The Election Commission has directed the Chief Electoral Officer to count only the VVPAT vote slips in 44 polling booths, spread across 13 districts in the State, where presiding officers failed to clear the mock poll data from the control units but had removed the VVPAT vote slips. In its communication to the CEO, the EC said that the counting of VVPAT vote slips was in addition to the random counting of VVPAT vote slips as prescribed by the Commission through its instruction issued in April. The EC decision follows a report from the CEO last month stating that mistakes were observed in 46 polling booths across the State. On being informed about the mistakes in 46 polling booths, the EC on Wednesday announced a repoll in three polling booths of these 46 booths where the mistakes had been found. A total of 11,345 electors are attached to these 13 polling booths, which are going for repoll on May 19.

Source: The Hindu May 10, 2019 06:56 UTC