- 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:
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