Counting of votes for J-K DDC elections begins ANI | Updated: Dec 22, 2020 09:06 IST
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], December 22 (ANI): Counting of votes for the first-ever District Development Council (DDC) elections, which concluded on December 19, began at 9 am on Tuesday at all district headquarters across the Union Territory amid tight security.
Section 144 has been imposed by the administration in Doda to maintain the law and order situation. Three-tier security arrangements have been made to ensure free fair and smooth counting of votes. Counting agents of different political parties reached the centres.
State Election Commissioner KK Sharma said on Monday said that all necessary arrangements have been made for Tuesday s counting of votes in Jammu and Kashmir.
Sharma had also chaired the review meeting which was attended by all deputy commissioners (DCs) of Jammu and Kashmir through video conferencing while Secretary State Election Commission and other senior election officers attended the meeting in person.
The SEC said that the process in each centre will be supervised by a Returning Officer and Assistant Returning Officer. The counting exercise will be recorded by CCTV cameras and will be overseen by observers also, he said.
He said the counting will begin with the opening of ballot boxes and subsequently, these will be made into bundles of 25 each and compared with the actual number of votes polled in each polling station. The bundles will then be mixed together as per the counting guidelines.
Counting of votes for the first-ever District Development Council (DDC) elections, which concluded on December 19, began at 9 am on Tuesday at all district headquarters across the Union Territory amid tight security. Section 144 has been imposed by the administration in Doda to maintain the law and order situation. Three-tier security arrangements have been made to ensure free fair and smooth counting of votes. Counting agents of different political parties reached the centres. State Election Commissioner KK Sharma said on Monday said that all necessary arrangements have been made for Tuesday s counting of votes in Jammu and Kashmir. Sharma had also chaired the review meeting which was attended by all deputy commissioners (DCs) of Jammu and Kashmir through video conferencing while Secretary State Election Commission and other senior election officers attended the meeting in person.
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JAMMU: The State Election Commissioner, K K Sharma on Monday stated that the State Election Commission has made all necessary arrangements for tomorrow’s counting of votes for District Development Council (DDC) elections which concluded on December 19.
The counting for 280 DDC constituencies will begin from 9 am on Tuesday at all district headquarters across the Union Territory.
The SEC chaired a meeting to review the final arrangements with regard to the counting process to be held tomorrow (December 22).
The meeting was attended by all Deputy Commissioners of Jammu and Kashmir through video conferencing whileas Secretary State Election Commission and other senior election officers attended the meeting in person.
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JAMMU: The State Election Commissioner (SEC), KK Sharma on Monday said that the District Development Council (DDC) election results would be accessed online dynamically.
The SEC stated this while interacting with the Media persons here today.
While briefing the media about the availability of election results on a website: http://ceojk.nic.in, the SEC stated that the State Election Authority would facilitate people and media alike to access election results and trends on a dynamic basis.
He said that soon after the randomization and time-tested protocols the ballot boxes would be opened and ballot papers would be mixed subsequently for counting and added the updated information would be given to the people on the website.