(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 otherwise to assist him during the poll.
(2) As each elector enters the polling station, the presiding officer or the polling officer authorised 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 constituency electors of which have been supplied with identity cards under the provisions of the Registration of Electors Rules, 1960 made under the Representation of People Act, 1950, (Central Act 43 of 1950) the elector shall produce his identity card before the presiding officer or the polling officer authorised by him in this behalf.
(4) In deciding the right of a person to cast his vote, the presiding officer or the polling officer, as the case may be, shall over-look merely clerical or printing errors in any entry in the electoral roll if he is satisfied that such person is identical with the elector to whom such entry relates.