Security unit defender a counting presumption astatine Gole Market up of counting of votes for the Delhi Assembly polls, Thursday. (Tashi Tobgyal)
Around 5,000 unit members attached with the Election Commission, including counting supervisors and assistants, micro observers, statistical staff, and different enactment personnel, volition instrumentality portion successful the counting process for the Delhi polls connected Saturday.
In a connection issued Thursday, Delhi Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) R Alice Vaz besides said that a repoll was not required successful immoderate constituency arsenic the canvass assemblage has not received immoderate ailment from immoderate campaigner during scrutiny of predetermination documents, including Form 17C, which is the grounds of votes polled astatine a polling station.
“Scrutiny of predetermination documents was completed contiguous by returning officers of each 70 Assembly constituencies successful the beingness of wide observers, candidates, and their agents. All election-related documents were recovered to beryllium proper…,” she added.
Vaz further said that physics voting machines person been securely stored successful 70 strongrooms — 1 acceptable up successful each constituency — crossed 19 locations successful Delhi.
A three-tier information cover, with the innermost perimeter guarded by Central Armed Paramilitary Forces and the outermost perimeter by State Armed Police, is successful spot isolated from 24×7 CCTV sum of the sealed doors of the strongrooms and corridors, the CEO added.
She further said agents oregon representatives of candidates tin show information arrangements of these strongrooms circular the timepiece done the CCTV camera feed. “They are besides granted periodic entree to the interior perimeter successful batches to observe, verify, and beryllium assured of the information measures successful place,” said an official.
A elder AAP person said, “We person deployed teams comprising 3 to 4 workers successful each constituency, successful 12-hour shifts, to show the strongroom country from a distance… We are besides monitoring this online.”