{"id":98089,"date":"2021-03-26T17:01:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T11:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=98089"},"modified":"2021-03-27T10:13:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T04:43:40","slug":"postal-ballot-extended-to-certain-people-in-tamil-nadu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/postal-ballot-extended-to-certain-people-in-tamil-nadu\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Postal ballot&#8221; extended to certain people in Tamil Nadu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>For the first time in India, the Election Commission of India has allowed the casting of postal votes for a certain section of Peoples. In the upcoming Tamil Nadu assembly elections, the ECI allowed elderly voters aged over 80, the differently-abled, and persons tested positive for COVID-19 to cast a vote via postal ballot.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the Postal Ballot System?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>A postal Ballot is a facility whereby a voter can cast his\/her vote remotely. The user cast the vote by recording preference on the ballot paper and sending it back to the election officer before counting.<\/li>\n<li>Section 60 of the Representation of People\u2019s(RP) Act,1951 provides for the person a postal ballot facility.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/no-postal-ballots-for-nris-this-time-eci\/\"><strong>Click Here to Read more about Postal Ballots<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Procedure for voting through Postal Ballots for these three categories:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>People permitted to cast a postal ballot can choose to vote by filling up Form 12D. After filling them, he\/she can submit the form to the nodal officer within five days of notification of an election.<\/li>\n<li>Officials would then visit the houses of the voters on a fixed day before the day of polling. They will receive their ballots in ballot boxes physically. However, indelible ink will not be applied on the fingers of electors.<\/li>\n<li>Further, those who have filled 12-D forms will not be allowed to cast votes at the polling booths.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/MShareArticle?OrgId=G1E8DPR3D.1&amp;imageview=0\"><strong>The Hindu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? For the first time in India, the Election Commission of India has allowed the casting of postal votes for a certain section of Peoples. In the upcoming Tamil Nadu assembly elections, the ECI allowed elderly voters aged over 80, the differently-abled, and persons tested positive for COVID-19 to cast a vote&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/postal-ballot-extended-to-certain-people-in-tamil-nadu\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Postal ballot&#8221; extended to certain people in Tamil Nadu<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1760,9],"tags":[1331],"class_list":["post-98089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-polity-and-nation","category-public","tag-po_7","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704644687},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}