After the EVMs were sealed and sent to the strong room, the booth agents of established political parties sent a report of not just the votes polled in their booth but also a prediction of the number of votes their party would get in their assessment
Trinamool sources said that CM Mamata Banerjee was also heading to the centre to take stock of the situation.
The counting of postal ballots would be the first to start at 8 am. After 30 minutes i.e., at 8:30 a.m., the counting of votes recorded in the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) would begin.
EVMs shifted to strong rooms in Tamil Nadu
The damaged EVM was replaced with another machine to continue polling, which was delayed by around 15 minutes
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Kerala Chief Electoral Officer Rathan U. Kelkar issues direction after reports of a strongroom storing EVMs in Perambra constituency in Kozhikode being opened on Monday, and reported plans to open another one in Nenmara constituency in Palakkad
Squad tasked with guarding the people’s mandate until counting day by monitoring CCTV footage from the strongroom at CUSAT, where electronic voting machines from the constituency are stored
The commissioning began in the presence of the candidates or their authorised representatives as well as General Observers, according to the release
The process, conducted under the supervision of returning officers at the designated strongrooms in each constituency, involved affixing ballot labels featuring the names, photos, and symbols of the candidates onto the ballot units