EC to hold meeting with CEOs of Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura

November 12, 2017 12:47

The Election Commission of India will hold a pre-poll preparedness review meeting with Chief Electoral Officers of Meghalaya, Nagaland and Tripura at New Delhi tomorrow, officials said here today.

"At the meeting tomorrow, the EC will review the preparedness of these poll-bound states on the use of the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail machines and also discuss the launch of BLO-net in these states," Meghalaya Chief Electoral Officer F R Kharkongor said.

All 3082 polling booths in the 60 constituencies in the state will implement the VVPAT or VPR (Verifiable Paper Record), a method of providing feedback to voters to verify that the vote polled by a voter goes to the correct candidate/party, he said.

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