Counting of votes at seven centres in Kannur
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Candidates allowed to assign agents
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Candidates allowed to assign agents
All arrangements have been made for the counting of votes in Kannur district from 8 a.m. on May 2.
In all the constituencies except Thalassery, 28 tables will be arranged in four halls. There will be seven tables in each hall. In Thalassery, there will be 21 tables in three halls. A counting supervisor, assistant and micro-observer will be present at the counting table. Each candidate may assign an agent at each counting table.
According to a release, the centres will also have special arrangements for postal ballot counting. Postal ballots arriving till 8 a.m. on the day will be accepted. The votes of service voters will be treated as postal ballots.
Kannur to have 1,279 additional poll booths
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Booths being set up in wake of pandemic situation
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Booths being set up in wake of pandemic situation
As many as 3,137 polling booths will be set up in Kannur for the upcoming Assembly elections. There were 1,858 booths in the last Assembly polls. An additional 1,279 booths will be set up this time as per the Central Election Commission’s recommendation to divide the booths with more than a thousand voters in the wake of the pandemic situation, District Collector T.V. Subhash has said.
Each booth will have five polling officials. With the addition of 1,279 booths, 20,000 officials will have to be deployed for polling duty alone, including 20 per cent reserve staff. In addition, more officers will have to deployed for the distribution of special postal ballots.