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State of Andhra Pradesh - Section

Section 28 in Andhra Pradesh Municipal Corporations (Conduct of Election of Members, Election Expenses and Election Petitions) Rules, 2005

28. Tendered Votes.

(1)If a person representing himself to be a particular voter seeks a ballot paper after another person has already voted as such voter, he shall on satisfactorily answering such questions relating to his identity as the Presiding Officer may ask, be entitled subject to the following provisions of this rule, to mark a ballot paper (hereinafter in these rules referred to as a "tendered ballot paper") in the same manner as any other voter.
(2)Every such person shall, before being supplied with a tendered ballot paper; sign his name against the entry relating to him in a list in Form XIX.
(3)A tendered ballot paper shall be the same as the other ballot papers used at the polling station except that -
(a)such tendered ballot papers shall be serially the last in the bundle of ballot papers issued for use at the polling station; and
(b)such tendered ballot paper and its counterfoil shall be endorsed on the back with the words "tendered ballot paper" by the Presiding Officer, in his own hand and signed by him;
(4)The voter after making a 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 a cover specially kept for the purpose.