The Hindu (Kochi)

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

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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 ocer 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 ocial 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” notiŒed 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 di•erences in the shadow register maintained by ocials 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.

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