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Section 55: Tendered Votes

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

(1) If a person representing himself to be particular elector applies for a ballot paper after another person has already voted as such elector, he shall, on satisfactorily answering such questions relating to his identity as the Presiding Officer may ask, be entitled, subject to the following provisions of this Rule, to mark a ballot paper (hereinafter referred to in these Rules as a “tendered ballot paper”) in the same manner as any other elector.

(2) Every such person shall before being supplied with a tendered ballot paper, sign his name against the entry relating to him in a list in Form 19 and in the counterfoil of the ballot paper.

(3) A tendered ballot paper shall be the same as the other ballot papers used at the polling except that-

(a) such tendered ballot paper shall be serially the last in the bundle of ballot papers issued for use at the polling station; and

(b) such tendered ballot paper and its counterfoil shall be endorsed on the back with the words “Tendered ballot paper” by the Presiding Officer in his own hand and signed by him.

(4) The elector, after marking a tendered ballot paper in the voting compartment and folding it, shall, instead of putting it into the ballot box, give it to the Presiding Officer, who shall place it in a cover specially kept for the purpose.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Tamil Nadu Panchayats (Elections) Rules, 1995
Section55
Marginal noteTendered Votes
JurisdictionState of Tamil Nadu
StatusIn force as published by the source

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