3 spl postal polling stations set up for police personnel

CHENNAI: For the benefit of the police personnel and police officers who applied for postal voting among Chennai City Police employees on April 11, 2024 to April 12, 2024, three special postal polling stations have been established under the supervision of the three Election Officers.

Regional Deputy Commissioners and Returning Officers for Chennai South, North and Central and the 16 Assistant Returning Officers and their teams were appointed at the special postal polling stations where polling is being held from 09 am to 05 pm.

The station was set up at the address of Regional Deputy Commissioner of the North region for North Chennai with arrangements of postal votes for North Chennai, Vellore, Krishnagiri, Dharmapuri, Thiruvannamalai, Arani, Villupuram, Kallakurichi, Salem, Namakkal, Erode, Tirupur and Perambalur.

For South Chennai, the special polling station was set up to cast postal votes at the address of the Returning Officer or the Regional Deputy Commissioner, South region, for South Chennai. The arrangement was done for casting votes in South Chennai, Thanjavur, Sivagangai, Madurai, Theni, Virudhunagar, Ramanathapuram, Thoothukudi, Tenkasi, Tirunelveli, Mayiladuthurai, and Nagapattinam constituency.

The polling station for Central Chennai was set up at the address of Returning Officer of Regional Deputy Commissioner for Central Chennai Lok Sabha constituency. The candidates cast the vote for Central Chennai, Tiruvallur, Sriperumbudur, Kancheepuram, Arakkonam, the Nilgiris, Coimbatore, Pollachi, Dindigul, Karur, Tiruchy, Cuddalore, Chidambaram and Puducherry.District election officers inspected the process of fixing candidates’ names and their symbols on the ballot units of EVMs.