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4,000 more EVMs for Villupuram

Special Correspondent

Hands-on training for voters and party representatives soon

VILLUPURAM: District Collector Ka.Balachandran told presspersons here on Friday that electronic voting machines (EVMs) would be used in the coming Assembly elections.

Already, the district had 1,340 EVMs in its possession and 4,000 more had been recently brought from Bangalore and kept in the central godown here.

As per the direction of the Election Commission, 2,000 EVMs would be dispatched Vellore and Thiruvannamalai districts from here. The remaining 3,340 EVMs would be used in the 12 Assembly segments in the district, he said.

The Collector said hands-on training on EVMs would be given soon to the electorate and the representatives of political parties. After obtaining the consent of the Election Commission the counting centres would be decided, he said.

Mr. Balachandran said as many as 8,61,731 voters were yet to obtain the Electors' Photo Identity Cards (EPICs).

The process of issuing the EPICs was underway, and till Tuesday, 1,11,164 voters had been videographed and 97,424 ID cards issued.

Restraints on campaign

There would be a total of 2,476 polling stations in the district, of which 676 would be sub-polling stations.

It had been proposed to deploy 12,000 personnel on poll duty, and so far, data on 7,500 had been computerised.

Arrangements had been made to record the polling on video. The Collector categorically said the political parties were barred from putting campaign materials such as banners, wall posters, cut-outs etc., on the government buildings (even those government offices functioning from rented buildings), roads, bridges, culverts and so on.

As per the recent orders of the Election Commission, the parties should also stay clear of private properties.

If the rules were violated, the officials would remove these materials and credit the expenses to the poll accounts of the respective candidates, besides initiating penal action.

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