Declaring that lakhs of polling officers are concerned in feeding within the information and there’s a system designed to throw up crimson flags in case of a mistake, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Wednesday stated the Election Fee’s techniques for managing electoral rolls, randomisation and deployment of EVM, voter turnout and outcomes couldn’t go mistaken.
Talking at an occasion to launch the EC’s Lok Sabha 2024 Atlas, the CEC stated behind the publication, which incorporates statistics of final yr’s basic elections, was the EC’s databases.
“What makes us certain that nothing can go mistaken is that this information is fed by at the very least 10-10.5 lakh polling officers…There are such a lot of folks concerned on this that as a design, nothing can go mistaken,” he stated.
In case anybody makes a mistake in feeding within the information, the system would throw up crimson flags, he stated.
The CEC’s remarks come at a time when the Congress has questioned the EC over the rise in electors in Maharashtra between the 2024 Lok Sabha election and the Meeting election within the state 5 months later.
Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar stated that the EC solely had 586 of its personal employees, whereas about 2 crore polling officers, safety personnel and brokers of political events are concerned in finishing up a Lok Sabha election.
The 2024 Lok Sabha elections, which had been held over seven phases, had 97.98 crore registered electors, out of which 64.64 crore voted (66.10 per cent turnout) at 10.5 lakh polling stations.
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A complete of 8,360 candidates contested the polls for the 543 Lok Sabha seats.
Eight hundred girls candidates, 7,554 male candidates and 6 third gender candidates had been within the fray.
Atlas-2024 offers detailed data on numerous points of elections and election outcomes.
The EC stated the doc is according to its dedication to most transparency, accessibility, and better disclosure of election-related information.
