(1) If a person representing himself to be a particular elector applies for a ballot paper after another person has already voted as such elector, he shall on satisfactorily answering such question relating to his identity as the presiding officer may ask, be entitled, subject to the following provisions of this rule, to mark a ballot paper (hereinafter in these rules referred to as a “tendered ballot paper”) in the same manner as any other elector.
(2) Every such person shall, before being supplied with a tendered ballot paper, sign his name against the entry relating to him in a list in Form – 18.
(3) A tendered ballot paper shall be the same as the other ballot papers used at the polling except that –
(a) such tendered ballot paper shall be serially the last in the bundle of ballot papers issued for use at the polling station; and
(b) such tendered ballot paper and the counterfoil shall be endorsed on the back with the words” Tendered ballot paper” by the presiding officer in his own hand and signed by him.
(4) the elector after marking a tendered ballot paper in the voting compartment and folding it shall instead of putting it into ballot box, give it to the presiding officer, who shall place it in a cover specially kept for the purpose.
70. Closing of poll : (1) The presiding officer shall close the polling station at the hour fixed in that behalf and shall not thereafter admit any elector into the polling station:
Provided that all electors present at the polling station before it is closed shall be allowed to cast their votes.