An official said that the district administration in Maharashtra's Nanded verified 75 VVPAT machines with votes on EVMs and found no difference in the tally.
The counting and verification exercise was held according to the Election Commission's instructions. The official said candidate-wise votes obtained on EVMs from five centres in each assembly constituency in the district were tallied with VVPATs.
Nanded District Collector Abhijit Raut said the votes counting at 75 centres in the district, 30 Lok Sabha and 45 assembly, was seamless.
According to the authorities, the centres were selected by drawing lots in the presence of candidates' representatives and election observers.
During the counting, slips from five VVPATs per assembly constituency area were counted physically and verified with votes from EVMs.
They said in a press release that 45 polling stations (five each in nine constituencies of Nanded) and 30 polling stations (five each in six constituencies) were verified for the assembly elections and the Lok Sabha by-election.
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