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Small machine, significant role

Staff Reporter

Bangalore: Do you know how your vote is stored in the electronic voting machines (EVMs) from the day of elections to the day of counting?

The votes were locked in the machines, stored in sealed boxes and secured in strong-rooms.

Unlike paper ballots, these machines make counting easy for the officials as all they have to do is unseal the boxes and check the number of votes polled by each candidate (serial number-wise) of various Assembly constituencies displayed on a small screen on the machine.

Officials open the seals and record the numbers, with polling agents of various parties as witnesses.

Capacity

An official, who explained the process, said one EVM can record a maximum of 3,840 votes.

“After we note down the number of votes polled, we tally the figure and send it to the computer cell where it is fed into the computer,” he said.

With the counting over, the EVMs were sealed again and placed in huge iron trunks and despatched to the offices of the tahsildars of the respective Assembly constituencies.

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