Maha elections: ECI says no information on pre-numbered slips issued throughout meeting, LS polls

“The final elector ought to be given Slip No. 1, and the subsequent voter in entrance of him/her ought to obtain Slip No. 2, and so forth. Proceed the ballot even past the closing hour till all these electors have forged their votes. Depute police or different workers to make sure that nobody is allowed to hitch the queue after the appointed closing hour. This may be successfully managed if the distribution of slips to all such electors is commenced from the final elector standing within the queue and proceeded backwards in direction of its head”.

Annexure 52 of the handbook explains that the presiding officer’s diary ought to comprise quite a lot of particulars concerning the polling station, together with supplies provided and used, machines provided and used, polling brokers current, voter turnout particulars, what number of had been allowed to forged ‘tendered votes’, the variety of challenged votes, and the variety of votes forged within the polling station throughout the next time slots: 7-9 am, Sept. 11 am, 11 am-1 pm, 1-3 pm, and 3-5 pm. The diary also needs to report the variety of slips issued on the shut of the polling hour to electors standing in queue.

This info can also be recorded within the report of the sector officer, whose format is offered in annexure 6 of the sector officers’ handbook.

In accordance with information from the ECI, the variety of registered voters for the state elections held on 20 November 2024 was 97,793,350 (almost 97.80 crore), with 64,592,508 (about 64.60 crore) people casting their votes. As compared, through the Lok Sabha election, the variety of registered voters was 92,890,445 (92.90 core approx), and the votes forged totalled 56,969,710 (56.97 crore approx).

Primarily based on these figures, the variety of registered voters within the state elevated by almost 50 lakh (49,02,905), whereas the variety of votes forged went up by over 75 lakh (76,22,7980).