Conduct of Mock Poll 1000 votes will be

Conduct of Mock Poll: • 1000 votes will be cast on 5% randomly selected EVMs & VVPATs, • The electronic result & manual count shall be tallied with paper count. • Candidates/their representatives shall be allowed to pick Polling Stations randomly for this purpose and also to participate in the process. • Representatives of candidates shall be allowed to do the mock poll themselves. • Signatures of representatives of candidates shall be taken in a register in Annexure– 18 as token of having done mock poll themselves. • It may be ensured that the pink paper seal of the CU which has

Keeping of VVPAT paper slips taken out during commissioning of EVMs and VVPATs: • In 100% VVPATs, one vote to each candidate shall be given to check that the VVPAT is printing the paper slips accurately. • All such VVPAT paper slips should be stamped on their back side with rubber stamp having inscription “TESTING VVPAT SLIP-VVPAT Commissioning”, • Thereafter these slips shall be kept in thick Red colored envelopes and sealed with the seal of the Returning Officer. • On the outside of this envelope, the following shall be prescribed: VVPAT slips pertaining to testing printing the paper slips accurately during commissioning of VVPATs Date: …………………. 1. Name of State/UT: ………………………… 2. Name of District: ………………………… 3. Name of election: ………………………… 4. No. and name of AC/PC: ………………………

• Mock poll of 1000 votes would be cast in 5% of randomly selected EVMs, as well as, VVPATs. • The said mock poll slips after commissioning of EVMs and VVPATs, should be stamped on their back side with • Rubber stamp having inscription “MOCK POLL SLIP-EVM Commissioning”, • Thereafter these mock poll VVPAT paper slips shall be kept in thick Green colored envelopes and sealed with the seal of the Returning Officer. On the outside of each envelope, the following shall be prescribed: VVPAT slips pertaining to mock poll conducted during commissioning of EVMs and VVPATs Date: …………………. 1. Name of State/UT: …………………………… 2. Name of District: …………………………… 3. Name of election: …………………………… 4. No. and name of AC/PC: 5. Unique IDs of (a) BU: …………… (b) CU: …………… (c) VVPAT: ………………… (c) These envelopes shall be kept in the EVM-warehouse for record purpose till completion of Election Petition Period.

Use of Symbol Loading Unit for loading symbols in VVPATs: After completion of commissioning • BEL/ECIL Supervisors shall hand over all the SLUs to the concerned District Election Officer (DEO). District Election Officers shall keep the SLUs received from the BEL/ECIL Supervisors in their safe custody and return the same to them or engineers authorized by the BEL/ECIL on the next day after poll i. e. P+1 Day. • It shall be the duty of DEO to ensure that no engineer of BEL/ECIL or any other person is allowed to carry the SLU on poll day in the field and that all the SLUs are released to BEL/ECIL on P+1 day to enable them to move to the next Assembly Constituency/Segment for next phase. • For the aforesaid purpose, BEL & ECIL shall provide the details of SLUs allocated to the team for each Assembly Constituency/Segment in writing to the District Election Officer concerned