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Section 97: Maintenance of secrecy of voting by electors within the polling station and voting procedures

The Karnataka Panchayat Raj (Conduct of Election) (Amendment) Rules, 2010.State Rules of Karnataka · 1993

(1) Every elector who has been permitted to vote under rule 96 shall maintain secrecy of voting within the polling station and for that purpose observe the voting procedure hereinafter laid down.

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(2) Immediately on being permitted to vote the elector shall proceed to the presiding officer or the polling officer in charge of the control unit of the voting machine who shall, by pressing the appropriate button on the control unit, activate the balloting unit; for recording of elector’s vote.

(3) The elector shall thereafter forthwith-

(a) proceed to voting compartment;

(b) record his or her vote by pressing the button on the balloting unit against the name and symbol of the candidate for whom he or she intends to vote; and

(c) come out of the voting compartment and leave the polling station.

(4) Every elector shall vote without undue delay.

(5) No elector shall be allowed to enter the voting compartment when another elector is inside it.

(6) If an elector who has been permitted to vote under rule 96 or rule 100 refuses after warning given by the presiding officer to observe the procedure laid down in sub-rule (3), the presiding officer or a polling officer under the direction of the presiding officer shall not allow such elector to vote.

(7) Where an elector is not allowed to vote under sub-rule (6), a remark to the effect that voting procedure has been violated shall be made against the elector’s name in the register of voters in Form 38 by the presiding officer under his signature.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Karnataka Panchayat Raj (Conduct of Election) (Amendment) Rules, 2010.
Section97
Marginal noteMaintenance of secrecy of voting by electors within the polling station and voting procedures
JurisdictionState of Karnataka
StatusIn force as published by the source

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