MARGAO
With Assembly election 2022 scheduled in early February, election officials are all preoccupied with the ongoing exercise, be it Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) familiarisation exercise, especially for new voters and training programme for the Presiding officers who will be manning the polling stations.
The Assistant Electoral Returning Officers (AEROs) are also on the job to hear the applications for additions and deletion of names on the electoral rolls. This process will end on December 20 before the final list is prepared and sent to the head office for printing.
Officials informed that the ongoing EVM familiarisation exercise for new voters that has started at the taluka centres, have evoked response from first time voters and others alike. Anyone who needs to check the functioning of the EVMs can walk into the taluka level election office and insist on a demonstration.
Meanwhile, the AEROs are all busy going through the applications for the additions and deletions of names of voters from the electoral list. Sources said the entire exercise of adding new names and deleting existing ones will be complete by December 20.
In the meantime, training for the Presiding Officers of polling stations in all the 21 Assembly constituencies of South Goa have commenced.
