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VISAKHAPATNAM: The ruling YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) continues its winning streak and has made a clean sweep in the 10- member standing committee elections in the council of the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) that were conducted on Wednesday. Earlier in the day, the GVMC mayor and deputy mayors cast their votes. All 10 YSRCP candidates who won the 10-member
Ensure transparency in counting, says Collector
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Errors will invite action, he tells officials
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Errors will invite action, he tells officials
District Collector V. Vinay Chand has instructed officials to ensure transparency and avoid mistakes in the process for counting of votes in the elections to the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) and the Elamanchili and Narsipatnam municipalities in the district.
The Collector was speaking at a training programme for counting of votes at the VMRDA Children’s Arena here on Thursday.
The validity of the ballot paper should be ensured and counting should be done after the ballot papers to the agents of the candidates. The counting officials and staff should understand various aspects of counting and abide by the rules. Any mistake in counting of votes, either knowingly or unknowingly, would make them liable to face action, he said.
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Despite an awareness campaign run by the district administration and the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation, the municipal polls recorded a final voting percentage of 59.41%, as against 52.48 % in the year 2007, which is about 6% higher than the previous Urban Local Body (ULB) polls.
Out of 17,26,158 voters in the 98 wards of GVMC limits, as many as 10,25,442 voters exercised their franchise, while 7,00,716 voters did not take part in voting.
On the day of elections, voting started on a very slow pace. By 1 p.m., after almost six hours of voting, the polling percentage was just 36.09%. Officials expected the voting percentage to increase later in the day. However, only 20% more votes were polled in the last four hours till 5 p.m. The final turnout was declared to be 59.41%.