Mysuru: Counting of votes for the 11 Assembly Constituencies in Mysuru began at 8 am today amidst tight security at the new campus of Maharani Women’s Commerce and Management College at Vinayakanagar (Paduvarahalli), off Hunsur Road, and at the National Institute of Engineering - Institute of Technology (NIE-IT) on KRS Road near BEML, on the outskirts of the city.
District Election Officers and the Returning Officers (ROs) opened the strong rooms at both the centres in the presence of Paramilitary Forces, candidates and their selected agents at 7.30 am and the Electronic Voting Machines, Control Units and the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trial (VVPAT) machines were shifted to the respective counting tables. Each EVM has a code number and shifted to the counting table as per booth and Constituency. For the first time, VVPATs too were coded as per booths and Constituencies.
