handbook for presiding officers - Chief Electoral Officer, Govt. of Sikkim

machine. Therefore, only one green paper seal will be used in the
upgraded model of the voting machine for sealing the voting machine
with green paper seal.
(g)
The sequence of the buttons on the Control Unit to be pressed has
also now been made same as in the ECIL make of the voting machine.
The sequence is ‘Clear’ – ‘Cand. Set’ – ‘Clear’ – ‘Ballot’ – ‘Close’ –
‘Result’. After the ‘Cand. Set’ button one can press the ‘Ballot’ button
also directly. Pressing of any button out of proper sequence will
display the message ‘INVALID’ on the Display Panel.
12. Various types of display which appear on this display panel and what
these mean are indicated below:
(a)
(b)
LINK ERROR-:
PRESSED ERROR-:
Indicates ‘LINK ERROR’ of first BU, i.e., interconnecting
cable is missing, snapped or when only one Ballot Unit is
used. ‘Slide Switch’ in that unit has not been set to position
‘1” or when more than one Ballot Units are used, those units
have not been linked in the proper order
Indicates any of the candidates’ button in the first Ballot Unit
is kept pressed or jammed.
(c)
ERROR
Indicates the Control Unit is not fit for use
(d)
INVALID
Indicates a button on the Control Unit has been pressed out
of sequence.
(e)
CU ERROR
Indicates the Control Unit is to be changed.
(f)
BU – 1 ERROR
Indicates the Ballot Unit-1 is to be changed
(g)
CLOCK ERROR
Indicates the malfunction of Real Time Clock (RTC)
(h)
END
Indicates the end of display sequence after pressing of
‘Clear’ or ‘Result’ button
(i)
FULL
Indicates that the maximum number of votes (2000) for which
the machine is designed, have been polled. The machine is
designed to store 2000 votes in its memory.