The online monitoring system for keeping a tab on the goings on in 289 critical and sensitive polling stations in Cuddalore district has been put in place in the office chamber of Collector P. Seetharaman, who is also the District Electoral Officer.
Three big television screens have been erected on the wall to watch the happenings inside the booths.
Mr. Seetharaman along with Election Observer D.S. Dhok Rajurkar, Superintendent of Police Ashwin Kotnis and Additional Collector (Development) Veera Raghava Rao inspected the functioning of the online system on Tuesday evening.
Technical hands, mostly college students, give directions to those operating the web-camera fixed laptops in the polling stations to carry out proper adjustments regarding close-up shots, lighting, settings and so on.
On commencement of polling, the Presiding Officer and four polling officials in each of these booths will come on the screen, introducing themselves. Every voter must stand before the web-camera, after casting vote, to spell out his or her name for future verification.
