The Election Fee of India is once more within the highlight after it submitted earlier than the Supreme Court docket that it can’t disclose the voter turnout information based mostly on Type 17C. The ECI stated that releasing Type 17C information will trigger confusion amongst voters as it would additionally embrace postal poll counts. However, the INDIA bloc supporters questioned the ECI’s transfer and its resolution to not add the info on the ballot physique’s web site.
Opposition Chief, Occasion’s Stand On Type 17C
Former Congress chief and Rajya Sabah MP Kapil Sibal stated, “Type 17 is signed by the Presiding Officer and given to the polling agent on the finish of polling. The data can also be instantly despatched to ECI. Now why does the ECI not put that information on the web site? What’s the issue? What can occur within the course of is the variety of votes which are counted would the truth is be greater than the variety of votes which are polled. We do not know what’s right. Why ECI is hesitating to place it on web site? No one can morph it. Events are having doubt.”
DMK IT wing stated that it has collected Type 17Cs from 68,320 polling cubicles in Tamil Nadu. “Work on collation of knowledge and evaluation of the identical (by Parliamentary Constituency) have been happening over the previous 25 days. The identical is being shared with our chief Thiru MK Stalin for his perusal,” stated the DMK in a tweet.
It additional stated, “Our booth-level employees have been systematically skilled within the means of monitoring the variety of votes polled and making certain that the info in Type 17Cs matches the info within the management unit, poll unit and VVPAT. Furthermore, distinctive IDs of the Voting Machines are compiled to make sure verification on the counting centres. The DMK IT Wing will be certain that all our representatives are armed with the proper information on Counting Day to make sure due course of is adopted, main to an enormous victory for DMK and its allies.”
What Is Type 17C?
The Type 17C information the votes polled in every polling station. The EC stated Type 17C must be given solely to the polling agent and guidelines don’t allow the giving of Type 17C to another entity. It incorporates the account of the votes polled at a specific sales space. The Type 17C incorporates the identification numbers of the EVMs, the whole variety of electors at that sales space, the whole variety of voters at that sales space, the whole variety of voters who determined to not solid their votes after signing the register, the variety of voters who weren’t allowed to vote; and a complete variety of votes recorded per EVM.
Type 17C can be utilized in case of a authorized dispute associated to the ballot outcome.