For the first phase of Lok Sabha elections in Rajasthan home voting is set to start from today. In Rajasthan more than 58,000 voters have opted for home voting of which 35,542 people have registered for the first phase of Lok Sabha elections.
The home voting facility has been extended to senior citizens above 85 years of age and voters with over 40 % disability.
The initiative of home voting has been taken to make the elections more inclusive of 35,542 registered voters for the first phase of Lok Sabha polls in Rajasthan, 26,371 are senior citizens and 9,171 are persons with disabilities.
‘So far, over 58,000 eligible voters have opted to vote from home. These include 43,638 senior citizens and 14,385 persons with disabilities’, the chief electoral officer said.
The registration for home voting in the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections was to be completed on March 27. The returning officers were to share the list of registered home voters with all recognised political parties and candidates by April 1
Special polling teams will be formed to conduct home voting and their training will be completed by April 4. These teams will reach the residences of registered home voters in the presence of political parties and their candidates to conduct voting through postal ballots.
In the first phase, home voting will be conducted from April 5 to 14. The registration for home voting for second phase of elections completed on April 2. For the second phase, about 22,500 eligible voters had registered for ‘vote from home’ till March 27, of which 17,324 were senior citizens and 5,222 voters with disability.
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