Kathmandu: The vote counting of the elections to the House of Representatives (HoR) and Provincial Assembly will be simple and easy because of small size of the ballot papers compared to the local level elections.
Chief Returning Officer of Kathmandu Raju Kumar Khatiwada said there will be no confusions in vote counting as the size of the ballot papers is small and simplified one. “The ballot papers have been printed as per the number of candidates in every constituency. So, the counting this time will not be cumbersome,” he assured.
The ballot papers prepared for the local level elections were large in size.
The Office of the Returning Officer is learnt to announce the entire result of the polls in the estimated time by the Election Commission.
Likewise, Chief Returning Officer of Kathmandu Khatiwada said that entire preparations were over for the election in all 10 constituencies of Kathmandu district.
No need to stand in line for disabled people, senior citizens in voting
People living with disabilities and senior citizens will be put on high priority during voting for the elections to the House of Representatives and the Province Assembly on Sunday, according to the Election Commission.
“Facilitated by election employees, such people will not have to be in a queue to cast their votes,” said polling officer Ram Kumar Paudel, who has been assigned at a polling center at Kathmandu constituency-6.
Stating that voting right has been guaranteed to all people including differently-able people and senior citizens, he informed that political parties and candidates had made arrangements for the facilitation accordingly.
Rajendra Kumar Chhetri, who is running from Kathmandu constituency-10 under the House of Representatives from the Nepali Congress, said arrangements were in place to facilitate differently-able people and senior citizens. “Volunteers have been deployed to facilitate them by managing wheelchairs and vehicles during the voting.”
Similarly, Niresh Lal Singh Maharjan, who is contesting from Kathmandu constituency-6 (1) from the CPN (UML) said arrangements had been made for easing them as directed by the EC to make polling centers and stations friendly to the disabled people and senior citizens.
