Lok Sabha election Result 2024: How is EVM opened during counting

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Lok Sabha election Result 2024: Who the public has stood with in the seven phases of voting in the lok sabha elections, will be decided by the announcement of the result (Lok Sabha Chunav Result) after the counting of votes on Tuesday. Before that know the complete process of counting.

Lok Sabha election Result 2024: Voting for the lok sabha elections is over. After the voting which went on from 19 april to 1 june in seven phases, now everyone is waiting for the decision of the public. This decision will start coming out a few hours later with the counting of votes on the morning of 4 june (Tuesday). In the lok sabha election Exit Poll Result 2024, the possibility of prime minister Narendra Modi (Pm Modi) forming the government for the third consecutive time has been expressed. After this, people's interest in counting has increased even more. If you have a question in your mind that how is EVM opened during round by round counting at the counting center? How does the process proceed after this? Then how is the result declared? So let us answer these questions of yours.

First know whose order prevails at the counting centre?

Whether it is lok sabha election or assembly election, the counting centre is not governed by the orders of the central or state government. The highest official of the counting centre is the Returning Officer (Election Officer) i.e. RO, who is the representative of the Central election Commission. According to tradition, the district Magistrate of every district is appointed as the RO of the main lok sabha seat there. The entire counting process takes place under his supervision and after the result is decided, he gives the certificate of victory to the winning candidate.

What is the time of start and end of counting?

The election commission has decided that counting of votes will start at 8 am. After counting of each round, the result till that time is released. The time of end of counting of votes is not fixed. Counting is completed only after all the votes of EVMs are counted. However, according to the rules, the counting of the last 2 rounds of EVM can be started only when the counting of postal ballots, i.e. votes received by post from government employees and military personnel, is completed. The counting of postal ballots is done manually in the old way.

Who counts the votes at the counting center?

Officers and employees of government departments are put on duty for counting votes at the counting center. All of them have to reach the counting center between 5 and 6 in the morning. However, the officer or employee on duty is not told his role before the counting of votes begins. Doing so is kept confidential under Section 128 and 129 of the Representation of the people Act, 1951. Which officer-employee will do duty at which table number related to which constituency, this allotment is done just before the counting of votes.

How are tables set up in every hall of the counting center?

There is only one counting center for every lok sabha seat. A maximum of 15 tables are set up inside the hall at the counting center.There is a counting supervisor and a counting assistant on each of the 14 counting tables to count the votes.The 15th table is set up for the Returning Officer and Assistant Returning Officer, who supervise. There is a clerk with them.

One counting agent of each candidate stands at each table, who monitors the entire counting process.Every candidate can have one counting agent sitting with the Returning Officer and Assistant Returning Officer (ARO).

This is how the entire voting process is done

Under Rule 54A of the election Conduct Rules 1961, the counting of postal ballots starts first at 8 am on the Returning Officer's table at the counting center.Only those votes are counted in postal ballots, which have been received by the Returning Officer by post till the stipulated time before the counting of votes starts.

In postal ballots, the votes of security forces employees and jawans-officers are counted first, after this the votes of people engaged in election duty are counted.About 30 minutes after the counting of postal ballots begins, that is at 8:30, the counting of votes cast through EVMs begins at each table.If the Returning Officer in that lok sabha constituency does not receive a single postal ballot by the stipulated time, then the counting of EVMs begins at 8 am.The entire EVM used at the polling center is not brought to the counting center, but only its Control Unit (CU) is used in counting along with Form 17C.First of all, the counting officer checks the CU of the EVM.