Handbook for Electoral Registration Officers - Election Commission ...

the same constituency or the district. The website shall further facilitate an elector tocheck whether he/she has been registered as an elector or not and what are the detailsregistered against his/her entry in the roll. For further facilitation and convenience of theelectors, the website should also have a ‘search’ facility through name/place/EPICnumber etc so that an individual can locate his or her constituency/part no./serial no. andname in the voter roll. The search facility should be such that a non-voter (on the basis ofaddress to be keyed in) can get his/her polling station and the AC number as well as theBLO, AERO and ERO details for that polling station and the AC.43. It is not necessary that the rolls for all the constituencies in a state or even adistrict should be published on the same day. The electoral roll for any one singleconstituency should be, however, published on one day and not in parts on differentdates. Where the Commission has specified a particular date for draft publication itshould be done on that very date. Normally the Commission orders revision according toa common programme throughout the country. However, taking into account specialcircumstances obtaining in any particular part of the country the Commission may makedeparture from the common programme. Similarly wherever bye-elections are due at thetime of ordering the revision, the Commission may exclude these constituencies from theprogramme of revision and order revision later on after the completion of the byeelections.44. However, in whatever manner the rolls are published, the publication of roll mustbe of all parts of the roll of an assembly constituency and must include the last part of theroll containing ‘Service Voters’ list also. This roll of the ‘last part’ will not be publishedat any polling station but shall be kept in ERO’s office or such other place as has beenspecified by him for display of the roll after publication.45. The draft rolls shall be published in the polling station itself for the reason that thegeneral electors may easily identify these places as the places at which they can haveinspection of electoral roll and file their claims and objections. The draft roll may also bepublished in identified post offices in metro/city areas if the CEO concerned decides to.The displaying of draft rolls should be governed by the public convenience rather thanadministrative facilities available. If it is not possible to publish the draft roll in thepolling station itself, a suitable public building within the polling station area shall bechosen for this purpose. In addition, the publication should be made at the office of theERO, if such office is situated within the constituency or he may select a place in theconstituency for the purpose if his office is situated outside the constituency. The EROshould select a place for the statutory publication and notify it in his office.46. The publication should not be made on a public holiday.47. The rolls of some constituencies are prepared in more than one language. In suchcases, copies of the rolls in all the languages should be published. In these cases,additional care should be taken by the Electoral Registration Officer to ensure that entriesin the different language rolls are identical. It is possible that the names found in one rollare not found in copies printed in the other languages or the particulars in respect ofcertain entries are not identical. Therefore, the Electoral Registration Officers shouldundertake to print the electoral rolls in the following manner:30