Section 13: voting by illiterate, blind or disabled person

Appointement Committee of the District Panchayat (Election of members) Rules,1999State Rules of Tamil Nadu · 1994

(a) If owing to illiteracy or blindness or other physical infirmity, a member is unable to read the ballot paper and make a cross mark thereon and seeks for assistance for doing so, the President shall record the vote in the ballot paper in accordance with the wishes of such member and fold it up so as to conceal the vote.

(b) The member shall, then, himself of with the assistance of the President, insert the ballot paper into the ballot box.

(c) While acting under this Rule, the President shall observe as much secrecy as is feasible and shall keep a brief record of each such instance but shall not indicate therein the manner in which any vote has been given.

Where this provision sits

Act	Appointement Committee of the District Panchayat (Election of members) Rules,1999
Section	13
Marginal note	voting by illiterate, blind or disabled person
Jurisdiction	State of Tamil Nadu
Status	In force as published by the source

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