handbook for presiding officers - Chief Electoral Officer, Govt. of Sikkim

CHAPTER XXVI
VOTING BY PROXY
1. Some categories of service voters have been given the facility of voting
through proxy appointed by them. The service voters who have appointed
proxy are categorized as “Classified Service Voters” (CSVs). The Returning
Officer will supply you with a list of the CSVs, if any, for your polling station for
whom the proxies appointed by them will vote in your polling station. This list
of CSVs is to be treated as part of the marked copy of the electoral roll for
your polling station.
2. The proxy will record the vote on behalf of the CSV at the polling in the same
manner as any other elector assigned to the polling station. The procedure of
identification, etc. will be applicable in the case of proxy also just as in the
case of other ordinary election. However, it may be noted that in the case
of proxy, marking of indelible ink will be done on the middle finger of the
left hand. The proxy will be entitled to vote on behalf of the CSV in addition to
the vote that he may cast in his own name if he is registered elector in the
constituency, at the polling station to which he has been normally assigned.
3. In the case of proxy voters, the serial number of elector to be entered in the
second column of the Register of Electors (Form 17A) will be the serial
number relating to the proxy voter as given in the sub-list of CSVs for your
polling station. However, for distinguishing the serial number from the serial
numbers of electors in the main marked copy of the electoral roll, the letters
‘PV’ (for ‘Proxy Voter’) should be suffixed in bracket. For example, in the case
of the proxy voter shown against serial number 1 of the sub-list of CSVs, the
serial number to be entered in column 2 of Form 17A will be ‘1 (PV)’, for the
proxy voter at Sl. No.5 of the sub-list of CSVs, it will be ‘5 (PV)’ and so on.