A employee prepares kites that includes symbols of various political events forward of the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, in Kolkata.
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The Election Commission had stated the feedback of Congress’s Supriya and BJP’s Ghosh, whose response to the ballot physique will likely be given by as we speak, March 29, 2024, violated its advisory to political events to preserve dignity throughout electioneering.
In a separate improvement, senior ballot officers stated that not many electors are conscious of their proper to “refuse to vote” even after registering their identities earlier than the presiding officer.
That proper, which is separate from the availability to vote underneath NOTA, might be exercised underneath the ‘Conduct of Elections Rules, 1961 Rule 49-O’, which elaborates the little-known possibility for electors to abstain from voting even after reaching the polling sales space. While the NOTA (None Of The Above) possibility permits voters to specific their insecurity in any of the candidates in search of mandate, the ‘refusal to vote’ possibility permits an elector to shun the ballot course of in its entirety.
“This is not a new introduction of rights. It has existed for some time. The electors, though, have very little idea about it. Most people are unaware of this option,” a senior official of the EC informed PTI.
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The abstention from voting would, after all, play no position in affecting ballot consequence and the candidate who secures the best variety of legitimate votes polled, no matter his profitable margin, could be declared elected, he clarified.
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