1) The Presiding Officer shall regulate the number of voters, to be admitted at any one time inside the polling station and shall exclude therefrom all persons other than polling officers, public servants on duty in connection with the election; persons authorized by the District Collector or the Returning Officer, candidates, their election agents and polling agent of each candidate; and a person accompanying a blind or infirm voter who cannot move without help.
2) The Presiding Officer may employ at the polling station such persons as he thinks fit to help in the identification of the voters, i.e., registered medical practitioners by checking their Registration Certificate issued to them by the Maharashtra Medical Council.
3) As voter enters the polling station, the Presiding Officer, or the Polling officers authorized by him in this behalf, shall ask voter to show his or her registration certificate and shall check the voter name and other particulars with the relevant entry in the list of voters. On satisfying about voter's identity, he shall put an indelible ink mark on his left middle finger or any other finger of his left hand in case his left middle finger is missing, or on his right middle finger, if his left hand is missing.
4) In deciding right of a person to obtain a ballot paper, the Presiding Officer or the Polling Officers as the case may be, shall overlook merely clerical or printing errors in an entry in the list of voters, if he is satisfied that such person is identical with the voter to whom such entry relates.
5) Every ballot paper, before it is issued to a voter, and the counterfoil attached thereto, shall be stamped on the back with such distinguishing mark as the District Collector may direct, and every ballot paper, before it is issued, to a voter, shall be signed in full on its back by the Presiding Officer.
6) The Presiding Officer shall deliver ballot paper to a voter after obtaining the signature of the voter on the counterfoil of the ballot paper.
7) No ballot paper shall be issued to any voter before the hour fixed for the commencement of the poll and after the hour fixed for the closing of the poll. However, ballot papers shall be issued to those voters who are present at the polling station at the time of closing of poll and such voters shall be allowed to record their votes even after poll closing hour.