NEW DELHI: With 97-98% of senior citizens aged above 80 years having preferred to vote in person in the past 11 assembly polls rather than avail of the postal ballot facility extended to them ...

Postal Ballot procedure As per the revised rule, the person will apply in a new Form 12D, which will reach the Returning Officer within 5 days after the date of notification of election.

The disabled and people over 80 years of age can now cast their vote through postal ballot, the government said on Saturday, in a move that will help increase voter turnout.

Over 2.6 lakh of them are aged above 85 years, and 11,028 voters are above 100 years. Those having a disability of more than 40% too can avail the postal ballot facility. The state has nearly 1.5 ...

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In the last Lok Sabha elections, about 60.14 per cent of absentee voters voted through e-postal ballot while in 2014, during the general election, this figure was just 4 per cent.

Voters aged 85+ and those with 40%+ disability in Mangaluru can opt for postal ballot for Lok Sabha elections. The booth level officers to visit the homes of such identified voters with a form 12 D.