Home Voting : ECI
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has introduced a ground-breaking initiative for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, providing the option of home voting for elderly citizens above 85 years of age and Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) with a 40% benchmark disability.
- This initiative aims to enhance inclusivity and accessibility in the electoral process.
- Additional steps taken by the Election Commission (EC) to promote inclusive voting include:
- Abolishing Form-M requirement for Kashmiri migrants residing in Jammu and Udhampur, simplifying the voting process for them.
- Implementing Systematic Voter’s Education and Electoral Participation (SVEEP) to engage Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) and educate their friends, families, and polling officials.
- Introducing the proposed Multi-Constituency Remote Electronic Voting Machine (RVM), enabling migrant voters to vote from their current place of residence.
- Allowing voting by postal ballot for special voters, service voters (including members of the armed forces, police forces serving outside their states, and government employees serving outside India), voters on election duty, and electors subjected to preventive detention.
- Facilitating proxy voting, allowing registered electors, particularly service voters, to delegate their voting rights to a representative of their choice.
