Kerala - Kochi
Election preparations complete
Staff Reporter
Distribution of polling material begins at 8 a.m. today
KOCHI: Arrangements have been completed for the Assembly elections to be held on Saturday in which 21,01,387 voters in the district will cast their vote.
District Collector A.P.M. Mohammed Hanish, who is also the District Election Officer, told presspersons at the Media Centre set up at the Collectorate on Thursday that the 2,009 polling booths in the district, including 1,970 ordinary and 39 auxiliary ones, will be ready by Friday evening. The distribution of polling material will begin at 8 a.m. on Friday at 14 centres in the district.
Setting of the electronic voting machines has been completed. Machines have also been kept ready for emergency use. Mobile squads will visit the booths for rectifying any technical problems.
Communication network
A communication network linking all the polling booths to the district administration has been established, said the Collector. This will enable the Election Commission keep in touch with all the booths even if they are out of mobile coverage area.
The network is established by identifying the nearest landline numbers to each polling booth in case of booths that have no phone connection.
The database has already been collected and circulated among the officials.
Thripunithura, with the highest number of voters, tops in the number of polling booths with 198 booths, which includes 185 ordinary and 13 auxiliary ones. Mattancherry has the lowest number with 90 ordinary booths and three auxiliary ones.
Ramanthuruthu, in Mattancherry constituency, with 15 voters, has the least number of voters. A booth has been arranged exclusively for the residents of the Ponganchuvadu Tribal Colony.
Digital cameras will be installed at 160 booths, including the 102 notified as sensitive and vulnerable.
The Election Commission will decide on the other 58 booths where the cameras will be installed. The cameras will be used to record the images of all voters who come to cast votes at these booths.
Besides the digital cameras, the video squads of the police and the returning officers will visually document the election procedure.
A police force of 4,500 personnel has been deployed for maintaining law and order during the polling. Police personnel from Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan will also be deployed.
At the problem booths, four policemen from the other States will be deployed additionally.
Around 220 buses, 635 light vehicles and three boats will be used for transporting officials and moving polling materials.
All the 2,004 service ballots in the district for members of armed forces have been despatched, as well as the postal ballots.
A special class will be arranged on Friday morning for giving last-minute directions for the returning officers.
The Election Commission will inform the officers about regarding the cut-off percentage and about the procedures to be adopted in case the polling rate goes higher than the cut-off percentage.
(The Hindu, April 28, 2006)
Election preparations complete
Staff Reporter
Distribution of polling material begins at 8 a.m. today
KOCHI: Arrangements have been completed for the Assembly elections to be held on Saturday in which 21,01,387 voters in the district will cast their vote.
District Collector A.P.M. Mohammed Hanish, who is also the District Election Officer, told presspersons at the Media Centre set up at the Collectorate on Thursday that the 2,009 polling booths in the district, including 1,970 ordinary and 39 auxiliary ones, will be ready by Friday evening. The distribution of polling material will begin at 8 a.m. on Friday at 14 centres in the district.
Setting of the electronic voting machines has been completed. Machines have also been kept ready for emergency use. Mobile squads will visit the booths for rectifying any technical problems.
Communication network
A communication network linking all the polling booths to the district administration has been established, said the Collector. This will enable the Election Commission keep in touch with all the booths even if they are out of mobile coverage area.
The network is established by identifying the nearest landline numbers to each polling booth in case of booths that have no phone connection.
The database has already been collected and circulated among the officials.
Thripunithura, with the highest number of voters, tops in the number of polling booths with 198 booths, which includes 185 ordinary and 13 auxiliary ones. Mattancherry has the lowest number with 90 ordinary booths and three auxiliary ones.
Ramanthuruthu, in Mattancherry constituency, with 15 voters, has the least number of voters. A booth has been arranged exclusively for the residents of the Ponganchuvadu Tribal Colony.
Digital cameras will be installed at 160 booths, including the 102 notified as sensitive and vulnerable.
The Election Commission will decide on the other 58 booths where the cameras will be installed. The cameras will be used to record the images of all voters who come to cast votes at these booths.
Besides the digital cameras, the video squads of the police and the returning officers will visually document the election procedure.
A police force of 4,500 personnel has been deployed for maintaining law and order during the polling. Police personnel from Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan will also be deployed.
At the problem booths, four policemen from the other States will be deployed additionally.
Around 220 buses, 635 light vehicles and three boats will be used for transporting officials and moving polling materials.
All the 2,004 service ballots in the district for members of armed forces have been despatched, as well as the postal ballots.
A special class will be arranged on Friday morning for giving last-minute directions for the returning officers.
The Election Commission will inform the officers about regarding the cut-off percentage and about the procedures to be adopted in case the polling rate goes higher than the cut-off percentage.
(The Hindu, April 28, 2006)
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