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State of Telangana - Section

Section 41 in The Telangana Panchayat Raj (Conduct of Elections) Rules, 2018

41. Identification of electors.

(1)The Presiding Officer may employ at the polling station such persons, as he thinks fit to help identification of the electors or to assist him otherwise in taking the poll.
(2)As each elector enters the polling station, the Presiding Officer or the polling officer authorised by him in this behalf shall check the elector's name and other particulars with the relevant entry in the electoral roll and then call out the serial number, name and other particulars of the elector.
(3)Every elector shall produce identity card issued to him/her under the provisions of the Registration of Electors Rules, 1960 made under the Representation of the Peoples Act, 1950 or any such document as may be specified, by order, by the State Election Commission before the Presiding Officer or the polling officer authorized by him in this behalf, in order to establish his/her identity at the polling station.
(4)In deciding the right of a person to cast his vote, the Presiding Officer or the polling officer, as the case may be, shall over look the clerical or printing errors in an entry in the electoral roll if he is satisfied that such person is identical with the elector to whom such entry relates.