Overview
- Polling is scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 5, at roughly 31,460–31,472 polling stations with about 2.61 crore eligible voters expected to cast ballots.
- The police have deployed about 40,000 personnel and identified 1,841 highly sensitive and 2,645 sensitive stations where extra forces will be posted.
- State election officials have drafted approximately 2.52 lakh staff for polling duties and about 52,000 people to assist the counting process.
- Targeted contingency steps after Cyclone Murasu include shortening voting hours by two hours at 44 Polavaram border stations, moving distribution centres where needed, and restoring access to flooded mandals.
- Officials plan real-time monitoring from command centres using CCTV, drones, body cameras and the Samarth app, and heightened patrols in districts with recent election violence while some district counts are set for Nov. 7.