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By Express News ServiceTHIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With a little over a week left for the assembly byelection, the process to allocate Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) through an online system to all 168 polling stations in Vattiyoorkavu constituency was completed on Saturday. After completing the allocation through a computerised randomisation process, the EVMs were handed over by District Collector K Gopalakrishnan to Returning Officer Geo T Manoj. These EVMs have tamper detection and self-diagnostic features and become inoperative if any attempt is made to tamper with it. Of the 48 sensitive polling stations in Vattiyooorkavu, webcasting has been arranged in 37 booths. Micro observers will be deployed in 11 polling stations..