Kakinada, April 29^th: About the counting of votes, the State Elections CEO Dr. I.V. Subba Rao ordered the district collectors to make huge arrangements for counting. On Wednesday he had a video conference with the district collectors and he asked to facilitate each parliament returning officer of the assembly with a computer with internet connection and has to maintain the results of each counting round to be updated on internet. District collector Mr. Gopalkrishna Dwivedi said that they are making all arrangements for the parliament, assembly votes counting for May16^th. He also revealed that they are taking the necessary measures for counting of the 3 parliament, 19 assembly segments in the district.

For the Kakinada parliamentary segment the counting will take place at V.S. Lakshmi College, for the Amalapuram parliamentary segment the counting will be at Andhra Polytechnic, M.S.N. Charities. For Rajamundry city, rural and Anaparthi the counting will be at Govt. Women’s Polytechnic and for the Rajanagaram assembly, Araku parliamentary, Rampachodavaram assembly and  parliamentary segments counting will be at Rangaraya Medical College. The collector also said on May 3^rd they are conducting mock counting.