New Delhi: A day before the Lok Sabha election results, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Monday, June 3, claimed that the counting mechanism is robust and the process is codified so that no error can be found in it. Rajiv Kumar also hit out at those questioning the delay in releasing the final voter turnout during the seven-phase general elections.
The Congress has raised questions over the big difference between the real-time voter turnout data and the final figures released by the Election Commission and said voters are worried about the “strange goings-on” in the poll body.
Other opposition parties have also questioned the delay in releasing the final voter turnout. Rajiv Kumar also said the counting process for the postal ballots will start before the counting of electronic voting machines (EVMs).
“Section 54 A of RPA Act was introduced in 1954. At that time, there were not much people for postal ballots. On all centres, counting of postal ballots will start first. After only half an hour, EVM counting will start first. It happened in 2019, it happened in all 2022 Assembly elections, it happened yesterday also in Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim,” CEC said.
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