Matching VVPAT Slips Likely to Delay Results on Counting Day

The results of voting machines will be matched with slips generated by paper trail machines.

Counting of votes for the Lok Sabha elections, in which over 8,000 candidates were in the fray for 542 seats, will begin at 8.00 am on Thursday, 23 May, and results are expected only by late evening due to tallying of voter verified paper audit trail slips with EVM count for the first time.

67.11 percent of the 90.99 crore electors had cast their vote in the seven phase elections. This is the highest ever-voter turnout in Indian parliamentarian elections.

First Lok Sabha Polls to Witness EVM-VVPAT Verification