In Chhattisgarh, preparations for counting of votes for Lok Sabha elections are in the final stage. <br />''<br />''This is the first Lok Sabha election where EVM results will be matched with VVPAT slips. <br />''<br />''In 2014 Lok Sabha polls, VVPATs were used for a pilot run in eight of the 543 Lok Sabha constituencies but there was no tallying done.  The tallying process will only start after the last round of counting.<br />''<br />''<span style="color: #222222;">Chief Electoral Officer of Chhattisgarh Subrat Sahoo said that random matching of VVPAT slips with EVMs will take place in five polling booths per assembly segment.</span><br />