Section 22 in Andhra Pradesh Municipal Corporations (Conduct of Election of Members, Election Expenses and Election Petitions) Rules, 2005
22. Procedure before recording of votes.
(1)The voter on entering the polling station shall first have his left fore-finger to be inspected by a polling officer for the purpose of ascertaining if he/she already has any mark of indelible ink on that finger. If there is no such mark, such or any other polling officers :-(a)shall ascertain the voter's name and address and such other particulars as appear in the electoral roll and, after having checked these by reference to the electoral roll shall call out the number, name and description of the voter according to the entry in the electoral roll;(b)shall thereafter cause the left hand fore-finger of the voter to be marked with indelible ink and then deliver a ballot paper. Before delivering the ballot paper to a voter where a direction has been issued in this behalf under rule 19, the polling officer shall stamp the ballot paper and its counterfoil on the back with such mark as may have been specified under that rule; and(c)shall before delivering the ballot paper to a voter :-(i)record on its counterfoil the part number and the serial number of the voter in the electoral roll as entered in the marked copy of the electoral roll;(ii)obtain the signature or thumb impression of that voter on the said counterfoil; or(iii)mark the name of the voter in the marked copy of the list of voters to indicate that the ballot paper has been issued to him without however recording therein the serial number of the ballot paper issued to the voter:Provided that no ballot paper shall be delivered to voter unless he has affixed his signature or thumb impression on the counterfoil of that ballot paper. It shall not be necessary for any Presiding Officer or Polling Officer or any other Officer to attest the thumb impression of the voter on the counterfoil.(2)No person in the polling station shall note down the serial numbers of the ballot papers issued to particular voter.(3)In deciding the right of a person to obtain a ballot paper under this rule, the Presiding Officer at any polling station may interpret an entry in the electoral roll so as to overlook merely clerical or printing errors, provided that he is satisfied that such person is identical with the voter to whom such entry relates.
