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AN ATLAS | LOK SABHA ELECTIONS 2024

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Persons with Disabilities

(STATE/UT WISE)
General Election 2024

Legal Provisions / Guidelines the voting compartment for recording the vote on his behalf and in accordance
As per the Conduct of Elections Rules, 1961 (Statutory Rules and Order), rule with his wishes:
49N is about recording of votes of blind or in rm electors.—(1) If the l Provided that no person shall be permitted to act as the companion of more
than one elector at any polling station on the same day:
presiding officer is satis ed that owing to blindness or other physical
l Provided further that before any person is permitted to act as the companion
in rmities an elector is unable to recognize the symbol on the balloting unit of
of an elector on any day under this rule that person shall be required to
the voting machine or unable to record his vote by pressing the appropriate declare that he will keep secret the vote recorded by him on behalf of the
button thereon without assistance the presiding officer shall permit the elector and that he has not already acted as the companion of any other
elector to take with him a companion of not less than eighteen years of age to elector at any other polling station on that day.

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