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LS polls LIVE | Congress terms EC 'Enfeebled Commission'

The Election Commission is learnt to have stuck to its plan of counting the paper trail machines slips at the end of counts and not in the beginning as demanded by opposition parties. The Commission is also learnt to have decided to count postal ballots simultaneously with Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) count due to the "sheer size" of the ballots received this time from service voters. Till now, the postal ballots were counted in the beginning followed by votes polled in voting machines.The Commission on Wednesday is learnt to have decided to follow the established procedure of counting voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) slips for the mandatory five polling stations per assembly segment of each parliamentary constituency at the end of the entire counting process. Stay tuned to Deccan Herald for all the live updates!
Last Updated 19 March 2020, 12:17 IST
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