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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.

 

 

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