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State of Bihar - Section

Section 24 in The Bar Council of Bihar Election Rules, 1968

24. Identification of voters.

(a)The voter entering the Polling Station shall be required to give his name, his father's name and such other particulars and details as may be considered necessary to enable the Presiding Officer to be satisfied about the identity of the Voter in cases in which he does not personally know the Voter.
(b)In case where the Presiding Officer is not satisfied about the identity of any person who claims to be a voter, he shall issue a Ballot Paper to that person upon his signing a Register kept for the purpose at the Polling Station. Such Ballot Paper would be marked separately with an endorsement on the back with the words "Disputed Ballot Papers" by the Presiding Officer in his own hand and signed by him.
If a person representing himself to be a particular voter applies for a Ballot Paper after another person has already voted as such voter he shall on satisfactorily answering such question relating to the identity as the Presiding Officer may ask, be entitled subject to the following provisions of this rule to mark Ballot Paper hereinafter referred to as "Tendered Ballot Paper" in the same manner as any other voter. Every such person shall being supplied a "Tendered Ballot Paper" sign his name against entry relating to him in a register maintained separately for the purpose. A 'Disputed' or 'Tendered' Ballot Paper shall be the same as any other Ballot Paper used at the Polling Station except that:
(a)they shall serially be the last 2 in the list of Ballot Paper issued for use at the Polling Station; and
(b)endorsed on the back with the words 'Disputed Ballot Paper' or 'Tendered Ballot Paper' as the case may be by the Presiding Officer in his own hand signed by him.
The Voter after marking a "Disputed Ballot Paper" ora 'Tendered Ballot Paper' in the voting compartment and folding, it shall instead of putting it into the Ballot Box give it to the Presiding Officer who shall place it in separate covers specially kept for the purpose of 'Disputed' or 'Tendered' Ballot Paper as the case may be.The said Register and Ballot Papers shall be looked into and scrutinised and considered in dispute relating to the election where any point arises concerning the matter.