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Daltonganj, Nov 19: Eight tables each for five assembly constituencies will count postal ballots at the multi-purpose exam hall of the GLA College Daltonganj, which is the counting venue for the votes polled on November 23.
Similarly, there will be 12 tables each for the same five assembly constituencies to account for the electronically transmitted ballot papers.
A fleet of 700 counting human resources is being given a full course of training as to how to count and collect the data.
Nodal Officer of the training cell Shabbir Ahmad who is the DDC Palamu said dress rehearsal, its ECI terminology, is not required for postal ballot counting or electronically transmitted ballot paper.
Shabbir Ahmad reiterated the ECI mandates dress rehearsal about the counting of votes through the EVMs.
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Dress rehearsal for EVM vote counting
Here dress rehearsal for EVM polled votes counting will be done one day before the final counting of votes slated for November 23.
Shabbir Ahmad said this dress rehearsal is a kind of refresh to the training where a practical operation of the dummy EVMs will make counting officials more confident and fast in their job of counting.
The ECI maintains that dress rehearsal simulates the actual performance condition. It tells the counting officials as to where the error may crop up and how better and fast that error is to be removed.
Further, a dress rehearsal has enough scope and opportunities to have a re-do till a counting assistant gets satisfied with the way the counting of votes proceeds.
It’s not only the counting of votes. There is ECI’s Form 17 C Part 2 which is an account of votes recorded. This account of votes has no room for any mismatch at all.
