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(3) The Returning Officer shall keep in safe custody until the commencement of the counting of
votes all covers containing postal ballot papers received by him.
27J. Officers authorised to perform certain functions under this Part.—(1) The officers mentioned
in sub-rule (2) shall be the authorised officers for the purpose of—
(a) sub-rule (2) of rule 27G;
(b) issuing certificate in Part II of Form 12C.
(2) Any of the following officers shall be the authorised officers for the purpose of sub-rule (1) —
(a) an oficer incharge of a migrant camp/area;
(b) an officer incharge of an office from where the migrant elector draws his salary as a migrant
employee;
(c) an officer incharge of a treasury/bank from where the migrant elector draws his pension as a
pensioner;
(d) any gazetted officer.
27K. Marked copy of the electoral roll.—The Returning Officer shall ensure that the marked copy of the
electoral roll received by him from the Assistant Returning Officer for the notified class of electors is used
during the poll in the constituency so that such electors who have been supplied with a postal ballot paper do
not cast the vote again.
27L. Notwithstanding anything contained in rule 54A, the Election Commission may direct, by
notification in the Official Gazette, that the postal ballot papers may be mixed with the ordinary ballot papers
at the time of mixing of ordinary ballot papers under rule 59A and, in that case, the Election Commission may
also prescribe, by directions
to the Returning Officers, the manner in which the mixing of postal ballot papers shall be done with the
ordinary ballot papers in the constituency.]
1 [PART IIIB
Voting by classified service voters through proxy
27M. Definitions.—In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) “classified service voter” means any person specified in clause (a) of section 60, who opts to give
his vote by proxy;
(b) “proxy” means the person appointed by a classified service voter as his proxy under rule 27N to
give vote on his behalf and in his name;
(c) “service voter” means any person specified in clause (a) of section 60 and registered as an elector
in the last part of the electoral roll for the constituency.
27N. Appointment of proxy by a classified service voter.—(1) A service voter may opt to give his vote
by proxy appointed in the manner provided in sub-rules (2) to (4).
(2) Any service voter opting to vote by proxy may appoint any person as his proxy to give vote on his
behalf and in his name at an election in a parliamentary or assembly constituency:
Provided that such proxy shall be an ordinary resident in the constituency concerned and of not less than 18
years of age and shall not be disqualified for registration as an elector in an electoral roll under section 16 of the
Representation of the People Act, 1950 (43 of 1950).
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1. Ins. by Notifn. No. S.O. 903(E), dated the 5th August, 2003.