As Delhi gears up for elections, state EC asserts using booth app in every one district of 11 constituencies

New Delhi, January 8: Gearing up for the upcoming Delhi elections, the Delhi Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Ranbir Singh on Tuesday said that one booth application will be used in every one district of 11 assembly constituencies during the next month's elections in the city. The polling for 70-member Delhi assembly will be held on February 8. The counting of votes will take place on February 11.

 

Delhi Chief Electoral Officer at a press conference said, “In 11 assembly constituencies, booth app will be used, one in each district. In these constituencies, photo voter slip will be issued and after scanning the QR code at the polling booth, a voter will be able to cast his or her vote.” The key contest in the national capital is among the ruling AAP, BJP and Congress.

Electors can carry smartphones at polling stations in 11 assembly constituencies for accessing QR codes from the voters' helpline app if they forget to get voters' slip to the booth. If there is some issue in downloading the QR code or there is network issue, then the phone would not be allowed, but would have to be deposited at a locker kept at a little before the polling compartment area, Singh said.

In the 2015 Assembly polls, AAP won 67 of 70 seats while the BJP could win only three. The Congress, which was in power for 15 years in Delhi between 1998 to 2013, drew a blank in the election. There are 13,750 polling booths located at 2,689 locations across Delhi.

Over 1.46 crore voters are eligible to exercise their franchise in the February 8 election, according to the final electoral roll published. There are a total of 1,46,92,136 voters -- 80,55,686 males, 66,35,635 females and 815 belonging to third gender -- in the final voters' list.