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District Collector N. Devidas connected Tuesday said that each administrative and logistical arrangements are successful spot for the upcoming 2026 State assembly elections. Following the authoritative notification, the territory machinery has shifted into precocious cogwheel to guarantee a smooth, transparent, and inclusive polling process. According to the latest electoral rolls, Kollam territory has a full of 20,84,011 voters crossed its 11 constituencies. The electorate comprises 9,96,263 men, 10,87,727 women, and 21 transgender voters. The Collector added that peculiar absorption is being fixed to inclusivity, with 18,904 voters with disabilities (PwD), 26,451 elder citizens, and 16,024 first-time young voters identified to enactment successful the antiauthoritarian exercise. To facilitate voting, 2,256 polling stations person been established astatine 1,094 locations. While 1,816 stations are situated successful municipality areas, 440 are successful agrarian sectors. In an effort to marque the voting acquisition much welcoming, the medication volition acceptable up 55 exemplary polling stations and 11 Pink polling stations managed wholly by women. Notably, a peculiar polling presumption of planetary standards volition beryllium arranged successful the Kollam constituency. For information and transparency, 180 stations person been identified arsenic critical, wherever enhanced monitoring volition beryllium implemented. The quality assets deployment for the predetermination is solid, with 2,707 Presiding Officers, 8,121 Polling Officers, and 180 micro observers being assigned duties. These officials volition acquisition a rigorous three-stage grooming process led by State and district-level maestro trainers. Regarding the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), the Collector confirmed that 2,820 Control Units, 2,820 Ballot Units, and 3,020 VVPAT machines person cleared the first-level checks and are securely stored successful the territory warehouse. The archetypal randomization of these machines is scheduled for March 19, aft which they volition beryllium moved to constituency-level beardown rooms. The counting process volition beryllium centralized astatine 2 large centres: St. Aloysius Higher Secondary School and Christ Raj Higher Secondary School successful Kollam.
Published - March 17, 2026 06:58 p.m. IST
