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    Election Commission of India for the first time provides facilities of home voting in coming 2024 election

    Posted 13 Apr 2024

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    • The step is in line with Election Commission (EC) motto ‘No voter is left behind’.

     

    • Home Voting Facility:
      • Under this, voting from home takes place with involvement of a full contingent of polling staff and security personnel with secrecy of voting diligently maintained. 
      • Beneficiaries: 
        • Persons with disabilities (PwDs) meeting 40% benchmark disability.
        • Senior citizens aged above 85 years. 

     

    • Other Steps by EC to make voting inclusive:
      • Ease of voting by abolishing Form-M for kashmiri migrants residing at Jammu and Udhampur.
      • SVEEP (Systematic Voter’s Education and Electoral Participation) to engage PwDs and also sensitise their friends, families, polling officials, etc.
      • Proposed Multi-Constituency Remote Electronic Voting Machine (RVM): It would enable migrant voters to exercise their vote from their current place of residence.
      • Postal ballot: It allows votes being sent by post. following Persons are entitled to vote by post:
        • special voters.
        • service voters.
        • voters on election duty and.
        • electors subjected to preventive detention.
      • Proxy voting: It allows registered elector to delegate his voting rights to a representative he nominates. Available for service voters.

     

    Service voters include: 

    • Member of armed forces
    • Member of police force of  a State, who is serving outside that State;
    • Person who is employed under Government of India, in a post outside India.
    • Member of a force to which Army Act, 1950 is applicable.

     

     

    • Tags :
    • Election Commission of India
    • postal ballot
    • proxy voting
    • Home Voting Facility
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