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State of Andhra Pradesh - Section

Section 68 in Andhra Pradesh Municipal Corporations (Conduct of Election of Members, Election Expenses and Election Petitions) Rules, 2005

68. 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)Where the electors have been supplied with identity cards under the provisions of the Registration of Electors Rules, 1960 issued under Representation of People Act, 1950, the elector shall produce his identity card before the presiding officer or the polling officer authorised by him in this behalf. Where such identity cards are not issued, each elector shall establish his identity by producing any such documents as are specified, by order, by the State Election Commission.
(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.