Bhubaneswar, Nov. 13 -- The counting of votes for Nuapada Assembly by-election in Odisha will be done on November 14 (Friday). The Election Commission of India (ECI) and the Nuapada district administration have made elaborate arrangement for counting of votes for the bypoll.

The counting is scheduled to begin at 8 am on Friday. It will be conducted in 26 rounds. The postal ballots will be counted first while the counting of EVM votes will commence at 8.30 am, said Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Odisha, RS Gopalan.

"The counting will be done at 14 tables. The VVPAT slips from five randomly selected polling booths will be tallied with the EVM votes as part of the transparency measures suggested by the ECI. The entire counting process wi...