INDIA bloc urges EC to revoke 2019 guidelines not requiring postal ballot counting before EVM
Until 2019, the counting of votes polled with the Electronic Voting Machines could be finalised only after postal ballots had been fully counted.
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The INDIA bloc on Sunday urged the Election Commission to revoke its 2019 guidelines, which removed the provision requiring returning officers to declare the postal ballot results before the final counting of the votes polled with the Electronic Voting Machines.
Counting of votes for the Lok Sabha elections will take place on Tuesday.
On May 18, 2019, the Election Commission withdrew the earlier guidelines, which said that the counting of votes polled with Electronic Voting Machines should be finalised only after the counting of postal ballots is completed. Instead, it told all chief electoral officers that Electronic Voting Machine counting “can go on irrespective of the stage of postal ballot counting”.
Instead, it told all chief electoral officers that Electronic Voting Machine counting “can go on irrespective of the stage of postal ballot counting”.
Speaking to reporters after meeting the Election Commission on Sunday, Congress leader Abhishek Singhvi said that this was the third time that a delegation of Opposition leaders had met the poll panel during the Lok Sabha elections.
“We presented two to three important issues in front of the elections, the most important being the counting of postal ballots,” said Singhvi. “Postal ballots can swing the election results and can prove decisive.”
The Congress leader pointed out that the Conduct of...
