The Election Commission on Sunday said the counting process for the five assemblies was going on "smoothly", but its website was slow in displaying trends and results due to server overload.
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PUDUCHERRY: The Election Commission of India has made elaborate arrangements to announce the early trends and the final results of assembly elections in the Union territory of Puducherry and four states besides byelections, said Puducherry district collector and district officer Purva Garg.
The commission will update the round-wise trends of each constituency every few minutes and announce the results on its website https://results.eci.gov.in and through the mobile application Voter Helpline’.
The counting of votes in Puducherry will commence at 8am on Sunday at three centres in the Puducherry region covering 23 assembly constituencies, a centre at Karaikal covering five constituencies and a centre for Mahe and Yanam each covering one constituency each.
A security personnel stationed outside the strong room where EVMs have been kept, in Guwahati on Thursday
GUWAHATI: The Congress’ Assam unit on Thursday filed a complaint with the Election Commission alleging “serious discrepancies” regarding the safety of a strong room and electronic voting machines used in the recently held assembly polls, and demanded an inquiry into the matter.
In a letter to the Election Commission, Assam Congress chief Ripun Bora said lack of safety of a strong room and EVMs were noticed in several assembly constituencies in Lakhimpur, Dibrugarh and Goalpara districts.
The tags/slips bearing the number of ballot unit, control unit and the VVPAT used in two polling stations under the Dhakuakhana seat in Lakhimpur district were found by Congress supporters outside the sealed strong room in which they were kept, Bora alleged in the letter.