Section 41(8) in Orissa Pani Panchayat Rules, 2003
(8)(a)Every member present shall be supplied with a ballot paper duly authenticated by the Election Officer, who shall proceed one after another to the place set apart for the voting and secretly place the rubber stamp bearing arrow cross mark against nine candidates/symbols for whom he/she wishes to vote and then fold and deposit the ballot paper in the ballot box placed in the full view of the Election Officer.(b)Immediately after the voting is over, the Election Officer shall count the votes in presence of the members and record the number of votes secured by each candidate in a plain paper.(c)The Election Officer shall then declare the first nine candidates who have secured highest number of votes in the descending order and declare them to be elected to the Executive Committee of the Distributary Committee.(d)In the event of equality of votes between two or more candidates for the ninth place, the Election Officer shall draw a lot in presence of the candidates. The candidate whose name is first drawn shall be declared as duly elected.
