Postal voting for absentee voters on essential services from April 20 to 22
Voters who have submitted Form 12 D to the nodal o cer before April 1 can avail the facility; Mar Athanasius School at Kakkanad and St. Xavier’s College for Women at Aluva are centres
Absentee voters on essential services in Ernakulam can cast their postal votes at the designated centres from April 20 to 22.
Voters who have submitted Form 12 D to the nodal ocer before April 1 can avail the facility.
Mar Athanasius School at Kakkanad is the postal voting centre for those in the Ernakulam Lok Sabha constituency. St. Xavier’s
College for Women, Aluva, is the centre for those under the Chalakudy Lok Sabha constituency, according to an ocial communication.
The votes can be registered at both the centres from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Those eligible to cast postal votes should bring a valid identity card.
The facility of postal ballots has been extended to people who are unable to cast their votes because of service conditions. An absentee voter is someone who is employed in “essential services” notied by the Election Commission after consultation with the government.
Scrutiny of expenditure
The scrutiny of expenses incurred by candidates in the Ernakulam Lok Sabha constituency in the second phase of campaigning was held here on April 18.
Pramod Kumar, election expenditure observer, led the scrutiny of the expenses held at Government Guest House, Ernakulam.
He asked agents and representatives of various political parties to ensure that all expenses incurred were recorded.
Necessary steps will be taken if there are dierences in the shadow register maintained by ocials of the expenditure scrutiny team and the register kept by the candidates.
It will be also intimated to the candidates concerned.
The third round of scrutiny of expenditure will be held on April 23.