Step 1: Opening the ballot boxes which is safely kept in counting venue transported from 171 polling booths across Southern Region

Step 2: Reconcile the count of ballot papers after opening the ballot boxes with the polled count and then verifying the valid ballots

Step 3: This election year other Regional constituency polling were allowed in Southern Region Polling Booths. Such Ballot papers will be first tallied with polled count and sent today to respective counting venue of regional offices of ICAI

Step 4: Opening the Postal ballot from the postal covers received till 10th December 2021 and verifying validity

The above steps probably be completed by the end of the day (16th December 2021)

Step 5: The valid ballots (after excluding the invalid votes) from Polling and valid ballots (after excluding the invalid votes) from Postal will be added together along with tendered votes if any to arrive at Total Valid Votes cast (for Central Council and Regional Council Separately)
Step 6: Before going to next step; polling officer will give an opportunity to the candidates present / representatives of the candidates present to go-through the invalid votes (of-course without touching it)

Step 7: After getting the valid votes cast; the next important step is fixing Quota as given in the below mentioned droop quota formula

The above steps probably be completed by the end of the day 2 (17th December 2021)