Maharashtra Assembly polls: How do govt servants on poll duty cast their votes? What are the recent changes?

An authoritative said that successful the metropolis Dharavi, Sion-Koliwada, Sewri, Byculla, Malabar Hill, Mumbadevi and Colaba are the 7 facilitation centres acceptable up crossed the city. Till November 16, those progressive successful predetermination work connected polling time tin formed their votes done ballot paper.

Postal voting

An authoritative said that the Election Commission of India (ECI) has made the installation of postal voting disposable to officers and employees connected nationalist duty, service officers, disabled persons and elder citizens supra 85 years of property to workout their close to vote.

In lawsuit of disabled persons and elder citizens, they are provided the installation of casting their votes astatine their residence successful the beingness of predetermination officials. In 10 constituencies of Mumbai metropolis district, 2137 voters implicit 85 years and 219 disabled voters person qualified for postal voting.

In 2023, with the purpose to cheque imaginable misuse of postal ballot installation for those progressive successful conducting polls, predetermination rules were changed whereby voters specified arsenic those connected predetermination work formed their votes anterior to the predetermination day astatine the facilitation centre.

Susceptible to undue power

Earlier, they kept their ballot papers with them and sent it by station which the ECI believed made them susceptible to undue influence, threats, bribery and different unethical means.

The modular argumentation of the Commission provides that voters connected predetermination work are deployed to a constituency different than their location constituency to negociate and supervise polling astatine the allotted polling stations. Owing to this statement they are not capable to formed votes astatine their location polling presumption successful person.

As per the caller arrangement, the voters connected canvass work use for postal ballots to the returning serviceman acrophobic astatine the clip of their training, who aft owed diligence, issues the postal ballots astatine the grooming centre during consequent rounds of training. Government officials past formed their votes astatine the grooming centre that doubles up astatine the facilitation centre earlier they are dispatched to the allotted polling stations for predetermination duty.