District Election Authority Reasi, under the supervision of the District Panchayat Election Officer, Indu Kanwal Chib, on Friday organised a day long training session for the counting staff for District Development Council elections 2020.The counting of the votes of the DDC constituencies is scheduled on December 22, 2020 in the district at the designated counting venues.The counting staff was imparted training about various aspects of the counting process including counting of postal ballots, opening of ballot boxes, mixing of the votes before counting, counting of votes, persons to be allowed inside the counting centre, identification of valid and invalid votes and filling of round wise and table wise tabulation sheets.The participants were briefed about various logistics and security arrangements and were directed to follow the set procedure while discharging their duty. Various situations of rejecting a vote as per election law were also discussed during the training.They were also asked to strictly adhere to the COVID19 protocols and guidelines issued by government from time to time during the counting process.