Work on to send all voting devices to strong rooms

Coimbatore | Tuesday | 26th March, 2019

Summary:

A total of 3,690 control units and as many ballot units (EVMs) will be sent these strong rooms on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively.The district has 3,072 polling stations. Coimbatore: At least 3,814 voter-verifiable paper audit trial (VVPAT) devices were despatched to the strong rooms of all the 10 assembly constituencies from the office of the deputy director of medical, rural health and family welfare at Race Course here on Monday. District collector K Rajamani inspected the work.“All the devices will reach the assembly constituencies on Wednesday night. Similarly, 351 each ballot units and control units and 363 VVPATs would be sent to the strong room of Coimbatore North assembly constituency that has 292 polling booths.On Monday, village administrative officials and revenue department officials worked until night to send the VVPATs to the strong rooms of each assembly constituencies. To throw light on the allocation of these devices to each constituency, an official said 386 each ballot and control units and 399 VVPATs would be sent to the strong room of Mettupalayam assembly constituency that has 321 polling stations..