Additional Chief Electoral Officer Vijay Kumar Jogdande told ANI that there are a total of 65 thousand 160 elderly voters in the state of Uttarakhand, whose age is more than 85 years, the Election Commission had decided to provide the facility of voting from home through the postal ballot to
Digvijaya Singh had recently said that he was working to get 400 people to file nominations from his constituency so that polling could be conducted through the ballot paper.
Vijayvargiya made the remark while speaking to ANI in Chhindwara on Tuesday, when questioned about Singh, who is contesting from the Rajgarh Lok Sabha seat in upcmoing Lok Sabha elections, on Sunday proposed a way of conducting elections through ballot papers in his constituency.
Sharma made the remark while talking to reporters in the state capital Bhopal on Monday, after Singh, who is contesting from the Rajgarh Lok Sabha seat, on Sunday proposed a way of conducting elections through ballot paper in his constituency.
"There is a way if you want the elections to be conducted through ballot paper here. If 400 candidates contest from one seat, the polls will be conducted through ballot paper. I am preparing for that," Singh said while speaking at a street meeting at Kachnaria village in Rajgarh on Sunday.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has allowed media personnel on duty related to poll day coverage to vote through postal ballot in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
Media persons on election duty carrying authorisation letters from the Election Commission and those part of essential services can vote using postal ballots in the Lok Sabha and four state assembly polls, the Election Commission said on Tuesday.
Earlier, on March 15, the Supreme Court refused to entertain a petition urging a return to paper ballot, alleging irregularities in the functioning of electronic voting machines (EVMs).
After the Election Commission of India (ECI) announced the dates for election to Lok Sabha and four state assemblies, BJP leader Bansuri Swaraj urged every voter to cast their ballot and make the slogan abki baar '400 paar' determination a success.
CCTV video from a polling station in Moscow showed a young woman pouring what appeared to be green dye into a ballot box and later being detained by the authorities, CNN reported.
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed two writ petitions: namely, apprehensions over 19 lakhs missing EVMs and another petition to use ballot paper to conduct elections while reposing its faith in the EVMs.