The voting shall be by ballot and every elector \'v'ishillg to record his vote shall do :iO in person andnol by proxy.
27, QllcsLioJls to be )lat. t.o e!eclo)'s.-i\l any lime before a ballot paper is delivered to all eleclor.thc presiding ollicer or a polling ollicer may of his own accor:l, if he ha~ rea~on to doubt the identil.y of the elector or his right to vole at· the polling station, and shall, if so required by a candidate or his agent, put lo the elector the following questions:-
(a) Are YOl,l the person ~nrollcd as follows:- (Reading the whole enlry relating to the eleclor from the roll) ? .
(b) Have you already voled at the present election?
(c) Such other question as he may deem fit 01' necessary;
and the elector shall not be supplied with a ballot paper unless he '<tnswers the tirst question in Ihe allirmative and the second question in tilE' negalive or if he refuses to answer any other question put to I\im ill pursuan::e of this rull'.
(I) ~~'b'SpeciaL procp.(/Ilrl! f OI·• J!rClJclItiltll IJc,,,~olln(jo,, of electon-' n) . Je~t In the olher provIsions of this mil', every elector who I ~)Jlles fOI n bnlll!t pnper fnr the purpose of voling nl n polling station 5 hll , before reel!lvllIg such bnllnl paper. allow--.
(al the iJlSpl'clill1l of his Idl fUI'l'lin!:l'I" lo lhe presiding ollic~r ur nny pulling ollieer: lind
(h) an indelihle inl, l1Iarl: lo be put Un his JeIL furclinger.
(2) Jf any SUch ell'c[or-
(a) refuses lo nllow sllt:h illspl'clinn of his lefl forelin~cr; or
(b) pl~rsisls ill 1I0illl! an." ill:l wilh n view 'lo remove sU'~h mark arler il Ila:: hl'C'll pul .
h" :<hall ."01 1)1' "l1lilll'c1 10 Ill' ';lll'plil'c1 wilh l\ll\' ballul I'uper or te n'l:nnl Ills Vole al IhI' elc·elillil. ' . (:1) Nu )lnslIll whll all"c:~IfJ'y hlls. a 111(11'1, Ull his Id.1 Cure/inger :lt lhe lllnt: he. l'nler,; lh l ' polllll.l: sl;JllrJl1 sha11 bt' .supplled any ballot pltl!C:\', lIntl I[ any slich persoll :lJlplies for ~, ballot pilper, he shall I; .. .r:.h!c lo be ;IITcsled ant! prosecllted fnr perS:ln:ttion.
(·1) Any rerl'n'lll''' ill lhis 1'1111' or ill rnll' ~!!Il.o Ih!' It'ft CorclinJ{I'r.
u[ an ell'clor shall, in l.he cllse \·.. here the declo\' hlls his left fore linger missing, be ruoslrued as a rl'ference to any olher linger of his left h~n,?, and shall, in the case where all the lingers of his leEt hand' nrt' nlls~Jng, be conslrul'd as a n~fl?rence lo the forefinger or any olher linger of his rigllt halld, and 511,111, in the case where all his' lingers o( hoth the hmlcls ure llIissill/~, be conslrued :lS a rcrercn~e to such extremily of his lefl ur right ann as he possI'sses. .. - 2~J. P1'Occrl\l.l'l.' IH.'fore l'eC:llnlill!1 of 1l0Ies.-( I) The elector un "lIlcl'Illg the pollillg ~laLioll ,dllll1 first allow his lefl (on-linger to be inspecled by a (tolling ol1kl:r (or the purpnse of ascertaioing if h(' nl ready has any IT\nrk of illt\I,lIble ink on thal linger. If Ih('re is nu sllch mark, the po II ing ollicer-ill·charge of the elecloral roll IShall ascer lain lhe eleclor':: lIaflle and address :lnd such other particula1;~ as appear on lhe roll ami, after having chc:'ked these hy rdc[('Ilce In thl"' roll, shall call out the number, name and descriptiun of the elector according to the entry in the roll.
(2) 011 the ('Iedor's name being called out. the elector shall ap proach the polling oIJicer-in-charge of the ballot papers who shall then cause' the left furdinger of the eleclor to he marked with in.;
t1elible ink alld shall Ihrrea(Ll'r deliver a bnllot onDPr -Lo the elector.
Uefure delivering the ballol paper ,'thl' polling ollicer shall, where a djrL'~liC)n ha.; bee:1I !SSUl'r! in this behalf lInder sc"lb-t'ule (1) of rille
(19), sl,lmp lhe' ballol papcr with "Such olliciul mark as may have been sp('cilied under t.hat rut('. Sueh pulling ollicer shall at the time of delivl'ry of the ballut papt'r place against the serial nllmber of the elecLur in l!Ie elecloral roll a mark lo denole th:lt Ihe elector hrls received a ballol paper anti shall also keep a record of the serial number of lhe ballul paper supplied to the elector in such manner as the pre,ding ollicer may, subject to any general ur ~pecial inslruc !.iC)I1S iS~lll'tI ill Iha l behnl r by the Commissioner, Gurdwara Eleelions, direct. .
(3) In deciding lhe right of a Jlerson lo oblain a ballot pnppr unuer this mle, lhe presiding lllliccr at any polling station may 1Jl!t:>r pret an enlry in the electoral roll so ns to overlook merely dertrDI or printing error if he is snlisliecl lhal ~I\ch rit!rson is identical with the eJeclor 10 whom such enlry relntcs.