Election Commission of India for the first time provides facilities of home voting in coming 2024 election.
Other Steps by EC to make voting inclusive:
- Ease of voting by abolishing Form-M for kashmiri migrants residing at Jammu and Udhampur.
- SVEEP (Systematic Voter’s Education and Electoral Participation) to engage PwDs and also sensitise their friends, families, polling officials, etc.
- Proposed Multi-Constituency Remote Electronic Voting Machine (RVM): It would enable migrant voters to exercise their vote from their current place of residence.
- Postal ballot: It allows votes being sent by post. following Persons are entitled to vote by post:
- Special voters
- Service voters
- Voters on election duty
- Electors subjected to preventive detention
- Proxy voting: It allows registered elector to delegate his voting rights to a representative he nominates. Available for service voters.
Service Voters Include:
- Member of armed forces
- Member of police force of a State, who is serving outside that State
- Person who is employed under Government of India, in a post outside India
- Member of a force to which Army Act, 1950 is applicable
