The Hindu : Poll staff for Anantapur from Cuddapah

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Wednesday, Mar 31, 2004

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh - Anantapur

Poll staff for Anantapur from Cuddapah

By Our Staff Reporter

ANANTAPUR, MARCH 30. As per the directions of the Election Commission the district administration has requested the neighbouring Cuddapah administration to depute 9,100 polling personnel for the ensuing elections. Similarly, half the requirement of Cuddapah district will be met by Anantapur.

According to official sources two to three personnel of the polling parties, comprising one presiding officer and five polling officers each, will be from the neighbouring district. The polling parties will be heterogeneous groups picked through random generation by computers.

The polling parties will know about their destination only 24 hours before the commencement of polling. In all, the district will require 16,572 polling personnel for the coming elections. Coupled with 10 per cent reserve personnel the requirement will be 18,219. Of them, 9,114 will be deputed from Cuddapah district.

Of the 2,762 polling stations 1,335 will be general, 720 for men and 707 for women. Counting of votes for all 14 Assembly and two Lok Sabha constituencies will be done at the district headquarters.

Further, the administration has proposed shifting of eight polling stations due to the shifting of designated institutions to other premises and nomenclature changes to 137 polling stations.

Of the 6,117 electronic voting machines (EVMs) required for the district, 3,500 machines have already been received and another 2,670 will be handed over soon.

Use of all kinds of posters, banners and flags as part of campaigning by the candidates has been banned this time. If they are used in violation of the code, the material will be removed first and the entire expenditure, material cost, wages, etc., will be added to the election expenditure of the candidates concerned. But pamphlets, door-to-door canvassing and public address systems can be used. Use of more than three vehicles in a convoy excluding security vehicles will also be added to the candidates' expenditure.

Election expenditure observers will camp in their respective constituencies from day one of election notification till the end of polling.

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