Teachers on poll duty say no to postal ballot, move court
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:04.03.2021
A government school teachers association has moved the Madras high court seeking a direction to the Election Commission of India (ECI) to permit government servants on election duty to cast their votes through EVMs in their respective constituencies at least three days prior to the actual polling.
Admitting the plea on Wednesday, the first bench of chief justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy directed the ECI to inform its stand by March 8. The association urged the ECI to make such an arrangement saying postal ballot was not effective and that most government staff on poll duty end up not casting a valid vote.
“During 2019 parliamentary election, 24,912 postal ballots were rejected for want of gazetted officer’s attestation of the 2,23,527 postal ballots polled, wasting votes of 15% of government staff on poll duty,” the petitioner said.
Recording the submissions, the bench said, that the ECI must ensure that not even a single voter is left out.
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