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| LampeIndia: More than 52,000 eligible voters opt for postal ballots in 71 constituencies for Phase-1 of General Election to the Legislative Assembly of Bihar 2020 |
New Delhi (Lampe):- More than fifty-two a thousand electors belonging to Senior Citizen (above 80 years of age) and PwD categories have opted to exercise the facility to vote through postal ballots in the forthcoming phase 1 of the General Election to the Legislative Assembly of Bihar 2020. These electors will be provided postal ballots on a pre-informed date(s) by the Returning Officers with proper security and videography arrangements to ensure secrecy, safety, and transparency in the process. This is the first time that the postal ballot facility is being extended to both the categories in Bihar elections. Booth Level Officers of 71 Assembly Constituencies in Bihar have reached out to more than four lakh such electors. The remaining electors intend to visit the booth on the poll day for voting.
It may be recalled that the General Election to the Legislative Assembly of Bihar 2020 was announced on 25th September 2020. In the first phase of elections, polling in 71 ACs spread over 16 districts of Bihar, is to be held on October 28, 2020.
Earlier, during Commission’s visit to Bihar from September 29 – October 01, 2020, attention was drawn to certain concerns regarding the implementation of this provision for the above categories of voters. To comprehensively address these concerns, on October 03, 2020, Commission had directed:
§ “BLO will visit the houses of the concerned electors, as provided by the RO, in the Polling Station area and deliver Form- 12-D to the concerned electors. If an elector is not available, he/she will share his/her contact details and revisit to collect it within five days of the notification.
§ The elector may or may not opt for postal the ballot in the acknowledgment attached with the Form 12-D.
§ If he/she opts for the postal ballot, then the BLO will collect the filled-in Form 12-D from the house of the elector within five days of the notification and deposit it with the RO forthwith.
§ BLO shall deposit all the acknowledgment forms with the RO along with all Form 12-D.
§ Sector Officer shall supervise it under the overall supervision of RO.
In subsequent two phases of elections in Bihar and in bye-elections in all other States, this exercise will continue so that the electoral process becomes more accessible, inclusive, and SAFE for these categories during the period of COVID-19. BLOs will visit approximately 12 lakh such electors’ homes in Bihar in the next two phases for this purpose.
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