Every voter in the city will cast two votes — one to elect the Mayor and another to elect the councillor of their respective wards. The Corporation will put up a notice board to help the voters on how to proceed inside the polling booths in an orderly manner to cast one vote after another on October 17.Each of the 1,121 polling booths (the number of polling booths has been increased by one as the ‘all voters' booth 392 has been split into ‘men' and ‘women'),will have five officials, including one Presiding officer and four polling officials.
The Corporation Commissioner, S. Natarajan, said that the preparation of the balloting units of electronic voting machines for the Mayoral election for Madurai Corporation was at a final stage on Tuesday. Each polling booth would have two balloting units to accommodate 28 candidates.
The work of inserting pink colour ballot papers into the balloting units was under way at the Corporation office. After this, preparation of control units would be taken up. The functioning of control units would be checked in the presence of candidates or their representatives before they were sealed, he said.
“Insertion of ballot papers in the balloting units for the 100 wards will begin on Wednesday,” Mr. Natarajan said. Ballot papers would be used for the ward election. These works would be taken up at the zonal offices.
Mr. Natarajan said that all polling material, including ballot papers and statutory covers, had arrived. The second training programme for polling officials would be held on Wednesday. Corporation school teachers and staff and government school teachers would officiate as polling officials.
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