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DETAILS OF BALLOT UNIT
•Ready lamp glows GREEN when Ballot button on Control Unit is pressed by P.O. to enable voting. Goes Off when voter has finished casting his vote.
•Slide Switch Panel used to set anyone of the 4 options: 1,2,3,or 4. ie. For 1 ballot unit Switch is set to 1 and so on…
•Candidates lamp: glows RED when the voter has pressed the candidate button pertaining to the candidate of his choice.
•Ballot paper Screen: where the Ballot Paper with name, sr,no., Symbol of contesting candidates is inserted.Masking tabs provided under the Candidate buttons. So depending on the no. of candidates contesting, the tabs are unmasked.
DETAILS OF CONTROL UNIT
•Display section has: 2 lamps: On and Busy ; also 2 display panels: one of 2 digit and other of 4 digit displays.
•Candidate Set Section: has a cover opening l-r: we see a left compartment which accommodates the Battery and the right one a Red Cad Set button. This section is closed by thread Seal.
•Result Section: also has same cover as above. On opening we find the left side has a Black Close button while right side has inner compartment with its own door. One button her is result 1 button. used for one type of election only: like only single Poll. Result 2 used for both types conducted at the same time, Clear button. Provision kept for a seal in the cover of this inner compt. and thread seal too.
•Ballot Section: has 2 buttons , a gray Total button and a large Ballot button.
•Bottom of C।Unit also open for plugging the cable from b।unit and a power switch to switch EVM On/Off.
CONTROL OF UNIT BOTTONS
•Cand Set: used to set EVM for no. of candidates contesting the election.
•Clear: pressed before start of a poll: to clear machine of recorded informations. Used when election is over/ not done w/o orders.
•Ballot: enables voter to record his vote: so once pressed: the BUSY lamp goes Red, Ready lamp of C.Unit goes Green and voter can now caste his vote. Then Pressed again to allow next voter to record his vote….
•Total: shows no. of candidates and total no. of votes recorded so far. Pressed at anytime: to see the same. But not when Busy lamp is ON.
•Close: Once pressed: no further voting can take place. Only pressed at the end of the Poll. When Pressed the no. of polls, no. of candidates, total votes polled and the word end will be displayed.
•Result: when EVM is used for simultaneous poll: ie Lok Sabha & Legislative assembly polls , both Result 1 & 2 are used ie. R1 for Loksabha,R2 for LA. When only single Poll, only R1 is used. In our case Only Result 1 USED. When Pressed it will display in sequence the no. of candidates, total no. of votes polled, votes for each candidates. The finally displays END. This button can be pressed as required.