Lawgist61Special procedure for preventing personation of electors
1[61. Special procedure for preventing personation of electors.--With a view to preventing personation of electors provision may be made by rules made under this Act:
(a) for the marking with indelible ink of the thumb or any other finger of every elector who applies for a ballot paper or ballot papers for the purpose of voting at a polling station before delivery of such paper or papers to him;
(b) for the production before the presiding officer or a polling officer of a polling station by every such elector as aforesaid of identity card before the delivery of a ballot paper or ballot papers to him if under rules made in that behalf under the Representation of the People Act, 1950 (43 of 1950), electors of the constituency in which the polling station is situated have been supplied with identity cards with or without their respecting photographs attached thereto; and
(c) for prohibiting the delivery of any ballot paper to any person for voting at a polling station if at the time such person applies for such paper he has already such a mark on his thumb or any other finger or does not produce on demand his identity card before the presiding officer or a polling officer of the polling station].
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1. Subs. by Act 58 of 1958, s. 25, for "section 61" (w.e.f. 30-12-1958).
- 56 Fixing time for poll
- 57 Adjournment of poll in emergencies
- 58 Fresh poll in the case of destruction, etc., of ballot boxes
- 58A Adjournment of poll or countermanding of election on the ground of booth capturing
- 59 Manner of voting at elections
- 60 Special procedure for voting by certain classes of persons
- 61 Special procedure for preventing personation of electors
- 61A Voting machines at elections
- 62 Right to vote
- 63 [Omitted.]
