(1)The presiding officer may employ at the polling station such persons as he thinks fit to help in the identification of the electors or to assist him otherwise in taking the poll.
(2) As each elector enters the polling station, the presiding officer or the polling officer authorized by him in this behalf shall check the elector’s name and other particulars with the relevant entry in the electoral roll and then call out the serial number, name and other particulars of the elector.
(3) Where the polling station is situated in a ward, electors of which have been supplied with identity cards under the provisions of the Registration of Electors Rules, 1960, the electors, shall produce his identity card before the presiding officer or the polling officer authorized by him in this behalf.
(4) 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 overlook merely clerical or printing errors in an entry in the electoral roll if he is satisfied that such person is identical with the elector to whom such entry relates.