Summary:
The Supreme Court has made it clear that random matching of VVPAT slips with EVMs will take place in five polling booths per assembly segment.
Accordingly, the exercise will be held in 20,600 of the 10.35 lakh polling stations across the country.
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The Election Commission of India will start counting votes for 17th Lok Sabha elections on 23 May, 2019 (Thursday).
With VVPAT counting to be introduced in this Lok Sabha election, the results on 23 May are likely to get delayed by five to six hours, Delhi Chief Electoral Officer Ranbir Singh has said.
He said after the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) counting is over, the voter-verifiable paper audit trail (VVPATs) will be counted as per the Supreme Court guidelines. Speaking about the Assembly constituencies of Delhi, Singh said, "From every Assembly constituency, five (VVPATs) will be randomly selected and they will be counted.
There is a special VVPAT booth in every counting hall.
It will take place in five rounds."
Delhi has 70 assembly constituencies and in all 350 VVPATs will be counted.
"Every assembly segment had 200 polling stations and five polling stations will be selected randomly.
This will delay the formal results.
But trends will be out early.