Lok Sabha Elections 2024: How Are Votes Counted In India? Simple Explanation | Indian Elections

India's mega event the lokha elections wrapped up on June 1st after seven phases spread across 44 days a Waring 15 million polling staff journeyed across the country to set up approximately 1 million polling stations including in remote areas like Villages Hills deserts and conflict zones despite scorching temperatures voters across India turned up to cast their ballots during each phase with a total estimated voter count of 969 million people to keep up with the more times electronic boarding machines were used for casting ballots making the process more efficient and reliable now at stake are 543 seats in loksabha the votes will be counted on Tuesday June 4 and the counting for the all the constituencies will begin at 8:00 a.m. now in the scene comes the most important question which is how the votes are counted in India and what's the process to it well I'll explain all of it in a very simple term in this video but before going to that part let us know how the election commission of India is responsible for fair vote count in India so to ensure a fair counting the ECI appoints a returning officer or arrow for each parliamentary constituency making them responsible for vote counting an AR is supported by assistant returning officer who are responsible for voting in the assembly segments falling under the respective parliamentary constituency ECI has also been using EVMS and voter verifiable paper audit trial which is vvpat systems to ensure Fair voting without any kind of cheating now as the biggest Festival of Dem democracy the Loa election ends let's know how the votes are counted in India so once the voting process ends the electronic voting machines are carefully sealed and stored in Secure room within the Parliamentary constituency on the day of counting representatives from all political parties gather as the EVMS are unsealed the counting starts with the postal ballots being counted first followed by the votes cast through EVMS which begins 30 minutes later for each parliamentary constituency there are several assembly segments in a single Hall 14 tables are set up where the counting for each assembly segment takes place the control units of EVMS are distributed among these tables depending on the number of candidates the number of halls or tables can be increased with prior permission from the Electoral body now before the counting begins thorough checks are done to ensure that the control units are sealed assigned correctly and functioning properly during each round of counting votes from 14 EVMS are tallied and results are announced and displayed on blackboard attached to each table after this the votes are counted by counting supervisors and Counting assistants on each table who are appointed by the AR through a randomization process the control unit of evm has a results button which when pressed displays the number of votes received by each candidate with beep sounds after all the candidates votes are displayed the control unit shows end signaling the completion of counting for that round so this is how the entire voting counting process goes on the final results of India's general election will likely be announced on the night of June 4 or the morning of June 5 and the ECI publishes the result on its official website well we hope you like this video for more such informative content do like and subscribe to our Channel mid day.com subscribe to midday India get direct notifications on all our videos by clicking on the Bell icon

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Published: Mon Jun 03 2024