In case (2) No person shall on the date on which a poll is 1hc Board decides to use electronic voting machines pro- taken at any polling station commit any of the following Yidcd hy the Election Commission, in that eventuality, the acts within a polling station or in any public or private rules or instructions of the Election Commission or of any place within a distance of one hundred metres of the polltllhcr such authority involved in conduct of elections, as ing station, namely:- ,_he case may he, regarding use of electronic voting rna- (a) canvassing for votes; or
1.:hincs shall mutatis mutandis apply to Cantonment Board .Jcction under the control, supervision, and direction of (b) soliciting the vote of any elector; or ·.he Returning officer: (c) persuading any elector not to vote for any par-
Provided that in case elections are conducted by ticular candidate; or usc of electronic votmg machines, the provision under (d) persuading any elector not to vote at the eleclhcse rules regarding use of ballot paper shall not apply to tion; or the extent polling is conducted by the use of such elec- (e) h·b·t·ng 011· lac d ( th th an ex 1 1 1 any n ce or p ar o er an tronic machines.
Explanation.-For the proposes of this rule, 'elec tronic voting machine' means any machine or apparatus whether operated electronically or otherwise used for giv mg or recording of votes.