The Lok Sabha elections in India have already ended. After seven rounds of polling, it’s time for the results. Before the official counting of votes, most booth return surveys showed the BJP to win.
The result will be published today on Tuesday. It will be known who is going to sit in the Delhi Assembly, BJP-led NDA alliance or India alliance.
More than 64 crore voters voted in this election held for one and a half months. The results of exit polls or Boothferat polls started coming in after the seventh phase of polling ended on May 31.
The results of almost every booth poll show that the BJP-led NDA is going to form the government at the Center for the third time with more than 350 seats. But the Boothferat survey is not the final result. The Election Commission of India will announce the final result. Today, Tuesday, all eyes will be on the Election Commission.
This election has been called the ‘biggest’ election in world history due to the turnout. In India’s 18th Lok Sabha elections, the number of voters this time was 97 crore. Which is 12 percent of the total population of the world. Before this there were so many voters in any election in the world. Votes of a large number of voters are counted as follows:
For the past many years in India, Lok Sabha elections have been conducted at all centers through electronic voting machines or EVMs, this time too is no exception. However, government employees or army personnel employed outside their center can vote through postal ballot.
A few years ago, the Election Commission started the system of going to the houses of the elderly citizens to vote them sitting there, so that they do not have to bother coming to the polling booth. And all of these are paper ballots, that is, paper ballots.
Counting of votes at any counting center begins by first counting these postal and paper ballots. It may take half an hour to an hour depending on the center.
As a result, the counting of votes started from eight in the morning, but the counting of EVMs started at around nine in most of the centres.
After each round of voting, the EVMs are locked and kept in the strongrooms of various parliamentary centers under tight security. On the morning of the counting day, the EVMs will be taken out of the strongroom and brought to the counting center and its seals will be broken in front of the representatives of all the participating political parties or candidates.
The ‘control unit’ of each EVM should be thoroughly checked whether it is well sealed, working properly or not – before the counting starts and the counting process should start with the consent of the representatives of all the parties.
Counting Supervisors and Counting Assistants – who are appointed by the Returning Officer of that Parliamentary Constituency – conduct the counting process at each centre.
The control unit of the EVM keeps showing the votes obtained by each candidate one by one.
After 14 EVMs are counted consecutively in one round, the result of one round is declared and then after the counting of 14 more EVMs is completed, the result of the next round is declared. Thus, when all the EVMs are counted, the returning officer of that center declares the final result and hands over the winner’s certificate to the candidate who got the most votes on behalf of the Election Commission.
Despite the Commission’s best efforts to keep the counting process free of controversy, it has been seen that the EVMs have been mired in controversy in almost every election in India.
In many cases, the losing party alleges that EVMs can and have been tampered with – although the Supreme Court of India has not ordered a ban on the use of EVMs till date.
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