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Section 46: Identification of electors

The Tamil Nadu Panchayats (Elections) Rules, 1995State Rules of Tamil Nadu · 1994

(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 to assist him otherwise in taking the poll.

(2) As each elector enters the polling station, the Presiding Officer or the Polling Officer authorized 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) In deciding the right of a person to obtain a ballot paper of ballot papers, the Presiding Officer or the Polling Officer, as the case may be, shall overlook mere clerical or printing errors in any in the electoral roll, if he is satisfied that such person is identical with the elector to whom that entry relates.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Tamil Nadu Panchayats (Elections) Rules, 1995
Section46
Marginal noteIdentification of electors
JurisdictionState of Tamil Nadu
StatusIn force as published by the source

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