Election Fee Tweaks Postal Poll Process For Upcoming Polls

New Delhi:

Looking for to make the process to go for postal poll extra handy for these above 80 years of age and folks with disabilities, the Election Fee has come out with a set of latest directions.

The shape required to go for the postal poll can be delivered on the residence of all these above 80 years of age and folks with disabilities by the sales space degree officer underneath his polling station.

It will be as much as these two class of voters to go for postal poll.

“If he/she opts for postal poll, then the BLO will gather the filled-in kind 12-D from the home of the elector inside 5 days of the notification and deposit it with the returning officer forthwith,” in keeping with the October three letter despatched by EC to all state chief electoral officers.

These directions have been issued primarily based on the suggestions the ballot panel obtained from civil society and media throughout its go to to poll-bound Bihar final week.

The EC mentioned the contemporary directions can be relevant to all elections and by-elections, together with the bypolls introduced final week to 56 meeting and one Lok Sabha seat.

Bihar goes for a three-phase meeting ballot starting October 28.

As per the directions, the returning officer would deploy polling groups, who will ship and gather the postal poll on pre-informed dates and thereafter deposit it with the RO.

An official defined that this postal poll facility is totally different from the one prolonged to service voters. Right here, these keen to make use of the power need to refill a kind. Officers then carry the poll to the residence of such voters and videograph the voting to make sure transparency.