Live
- UP govt prepares question banks for students
- Educating youth about importance of maintaining a healthy liver
- Nine candidates enter the poll fray on first day
- IIT-K, BFI forge partnership to accelerate healthcare innovation
- Nurture self-confidence and growth
- Nominations filed for Kurnool & Nandyal constituencies
- YSRCP’s ‘poor’ candidate owns assets of Rs 161 crore
- 12 nominations filed on Day-1
- Infy profit zooms 30% to ₹ 7,969cr in Q4
- Only 9.83 pc candidates are women in NE states
New voting system for MLC elections
Khammam: The upcoming MLC elections under local bodies quota will see a change in the voting system. The Election Commission of India (ECI) is introducing the ‘Preferential Voting System’ in the local body MLC elections, which will be held on December 27.
In the preferential voting system, each voter ranks the list of candidates in order of preference. The Ballot paper will have the names of the candidates and their party symbols. The voter marks ‘1’ beside the name of the most preferred candidate, ‘2’ beside the second-most preferred, and so on, in ascending order.
The voters need a lot of awareness to cast their votes properly. Earlier, the voters used the Swastik symbol and voted for the candidate they preferred. But in the new preferential voting system, along with the first preferential vote, the voters have the choice to vote for 2, 3, 4 and 5 numbers against the candidates, who are contesting.
If the voter, without giving his first preferential choice, goes on giving his second or third
preference then his vote will become invalid.
Training prog on voting system The ECI appointed four Polling Officers, 8 Assistant Polling Officers and four Micro Observers for the smooth conduct of the MLC elections under local bodies quota in the four divisions of the district.
A training programme would be organised to Polling Officers, Additional Polling Officers and to Micro Observers on how to conduct the elections along with supervising polling stations during the time of elections in the district.
The District Joint Collector and Returning Officer, K Babu Rao, said that RDO and other officials will organise awareness programmes for voters on the new preferential voting system in the four divisions. Voters not available
According to the orders given by the ECI, an awareness programme must be organised to the voters on the preferential voting system, which is going to be introduced in the coming up local body MLC elections.
But 80 percent of the total 693 voters in the district are not available at present since many of them were shifted to political camps organised by their respective political parties.
Next Story
ADVERTISEMENT
