Section 24 in Chandigarh Panchayat Election Rules, 1994
24. Seating arrangement of the Polling Officers.
- The table of the Polling Officers shall be so placed that when a voter arrives at the Polling Station and meets the first Polling Officer inside the polling station who will speak out his name so that if a polling agent ants to challenge his identity he may do so. If no challenge is made and the voter has been identified, the Polling Officer will underline in the marked copy of electoral roll and also make a tick mark against woman voter to be counted at the end and issue an identity slip after locating his name in the Electoral Roll. Then he will proceed to the second Polling Officer who will mark his left hand fore-finger in the manner given in rule 15. Thereafter he will proceed to the third Polling Officer who will give the ballot paper and marking stamp to him after obtaining his signature on counterfoil of Ballot Paper. He will then go to the polling compartment where he has to mark and cast his vote and after that put the same in the Ballot Box after folding it properly.In case the Government decides to hold the elections to the Gram Panchayats, Panchayat Samiti and Zila Parishad, simultaneously, the Commission may post additional Polling Officers. Each additional Polling Officer(s) will be custodian of ballot papers for Gram Panchayat, Panchayat Samiti and Zila Parishad Constituency, as the case may be and ballot-papers will be given to the elector in prescribed order.
