(1) The presiding officer may employ at the polling station such persons as he thinks fit to help in the identification of the voters or to assist him otherwise in taking a poll:
Provided that identity cards when issued by the Election Commission of India or by the State Election Commission or any other officer authorised by it to the voters shall be valid proof of identification during the polling for Panchayat Elections.
(2) As each voter enters the polling station, the Presiding Officer or the Polling Officer authorised by him in this behalf shall check the voters 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 voter.
(3) In deciding the right of a person to obtain a ballot paper, the presiding officer of the polling station as the case may be shall over look minor clerical or printing errors in any entry in the electoral roll if he is, satisfied that such person is the same to whom such entry relates.