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

14. Allow only one polling agent of a contesting candidate inside the polling
station at any given time.
15. Ensure free and fair poll.
16. Show due courtesy and regard to the observer appointed by the Commission
and furnish all the information required by him. Show same courtesy and
regard to the micro-observer present at your polling station.
17. Canvassing within one hundred meters of the polling station is an offence.
18. Smoking inside polling station is prohibited. Be careful that neither you nor
your Polling Officers nor anybody else in the polling station including the
polling agents smoke inside the polling station.
19. Do not give any special treatment to any VIP or celebrity coming to cast vote.
20.1 The duties of Polling Officers, where there are one Presiding Officer and
three Polling Officers, are as under -
The first Polling Officer will have the marked copy of the electoral roll and
will be responsible for identifying the electors. The printing and clerical
mistakes in the roll will be overlooked by him.
The second Polling Officer will have the indelible ink and the register of
voters with him. He will apply indelible ink on the forefinger of the elector,
enter the part number and serial number of the elector on the register of
voters in Column (2) of the register and write down the name of the
identification document like EPIC or the alternate document produced by
the elector in the 4 th i.e. remarks column of the Register alongwith the last
four digits of the serial number of such document. He will then and obtain
the signature/thumb impression of the voter before issuing the voter's slip
to the elector.
The third Polling Officer will be in-charge of the control unit. He will take
the voter's slip from the elector, check the indelible ink mark on his left
hand forefinger and finally press the 'Ballot' button on control unit to make
the Ballot unit kept inside the voting compartment ready and direct the
elector to go inside the voting compartment and cast his vote by pressing
the blue button of his choice on the Ballot unit.
20.3 Duties of Polling Officers at simultaneous election, when the polling
party consists of one Presiding Officer and five Polling Officers, are as
under:-
The first Polling Officer will be responsible for identifying the electors
and will be in-charge of marked copy of the electoral roll.
The second Polling Officer will be in-charge of the indelible ink and
register of voters.
The third Polling Officer will be in-charge of the Voter’s Slip
The fourth Polling Officer will be in-charge of the Control Unit for Lok
Sabha Election.