(1) Outside each polling station there shall be displayed prominently-
(a) a notice specifying the polling area the voters of which are entitled to vote at the polling station or where polling station has more than one polling booths, at each one of such booths or the description of the voter allotted to any such booth; and
(b) another notice in English containing the list of contesting candidates prepared under rule 30, alongwith the symbols allotted under rule 31.
(2) At each polling station there shall be set up one or more compartments in which voters can record their votes in secrecy.
(3) The Municipal Returning Officer shall provide at each polling station required number of ballot box! electronic voting machines, copies of the relevant part of electoral roll, the ballot papers, and other articles necessary for the conduct of poll.
Commencement 45. The Presiding Officer shall start the poll exact at the time mentioned in notice of of poll. election issued under provisions of section 60 of the Act.
Arrangement at Polling Station.
46. The Presiding Officer shall regulate the number of voters to be admitted, at anyone time inside the polling station and shall exclude therefrom all persons other than :-
(a) Polling Officer;
(b) Candidates and their agents;
(c) Municipal Returning Officer or such other person as maybe authorised by him;
(d) Public servants on duty in connection with the election;
(e) A child in arms accompanying a woman voter and a companion accompanying blind or infirm voter who cannot move without help;
(f) Such other person as the Presiding Officer may employ under sub-rule (2) of rule 42, sub-rule (1) of rule 47; and
(g) State Election Commissioner or such other persons as may be authorised by him.
Identification of 47. (1) The Presiding Officer may employ at the polling station such number of persons voters. as he/she thinks fit to help him in the identification of voters and to assist him in taking the poll.
Admission to polling station.
(2) As each voter enters the polling station, the Presiding Officer or the Polling Officer authorised by him in this behalf shall check the voter's name and the other particulars with the relevant entries in the electoral roll and then call out the serial number, name and other particulars of the voter.
(3) In deciding the right of a person to obtain a ballot paper, the Presiding Officer or the Polling Officer, as the case may be, shall over look merely clerical or printing errors in an entry in the electoral roll if he is satisfied that such person is identical with the voter to whom such entry relates.
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