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Polling officials astatine an EVM organisation centre successful New Delhi. (Express photograph by Gajendra Yadav)
The Delhi Police has made elaborate information arrangements to defender 19 strongrooms containing EVMs and VVPATs, with voters connected Wednesday sealing the fates of 699 candidates contesting the Assembly polls successful the Capital.
Police person acceptable up a dedicated squad of unit led by an further DCP-level serviceman for each strongroom crossed 11 districts successful the city. North East and New Delhi districts person 3 strongrooms each.
“The strongrooms person 3 layers of information with 2 companies of paramilitary unit wrong and a furniture of Delhi Police unit outside. They person been deployed circular the clock,” a elder constabulary serviceman said. Over 350 CCTV cameras person been installed astatine the centres, helium said.
On Wednesday, voting started astatine 7 americium and concluded astatine 6 pm. There was nary study of EVM malfunctioning successful the day, the serviceman said.
After the completion of the polling connected Wednesday, the presiding serviceman closed the fastener of the power portion of the EVMs and they were sent backmost to the strongrooms successful the evening, different constabulary serviceman said.
The EVMs and VVPATs volition beryllium kept successful a treble fastener strategy nether the ticker of the CCTV cameras.
The Election Commission allows candidates and their representatives to campy successful the beforehand of the strongroom, the serviceman said.
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