The Election Commission has revised the counting process to ensure greater transparency. From now, the last round of EVM counting will begin only after postal ballots are fully counted, with the new practice starting in Bihar’s upcoming Assembly poll

New Delhi: Seeking to bring in more transparency, the Election Commission has streamlined the process of counting of postal ballots in Lok Sabha and Assembly polls .

Till now, on the day of counting, postal ballot counting starts at 8 am, and EVM counting at 8:30 am. According to the earlier instructions, EVM counting could theoretically go on irrespective of the stage of postal ballot counting, and chances of it getting completed before the completion of postal ballot counting cannot be ruled out.

Although counting of postal ballots gener

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