Strong rooms will be opened at 6:30 a.m. in the presence of candidates or their authorised representatives, and counting will begin at 8 a.m. Postal ballots will be taken up first, followed by votes recorded in electronic voting machines
The recounting is being carried out as per the directions of the High Court
TMC workers, who have been camping outside the Khudiram Anushilan Kendra, alleged that eight trunks of postal ballots were brought in at 4 a.m. and were taken to a room, which has no CCTV coverage
Postal ballots, which were rejected during counting in 2023, will be verified, followed by recounting of postal ballots
In a separate incident, two election officials were suspended for allegedly being involved in malpractice in postal ballot voting
Directive to EC follows a plea by the Kerala NGO Union seeking to make available postal ballots and to extend the deadline for casting postal votes