PHEK, MARCH 20 (MExN): Two days election training for the forthcoming LS elections was held here at Phek Town Hall on March 18 and 19. Phek Government College Asst. Professor Nushimoa gave PowerPoint presentation on the duties of various polling officers as follows:
First Polling Officer
First Polling Officer
The First Polling Officer will be in charge of the marked copy of electoral roll and responsible for identification of electors. On entering the Polling Station, the elector will proceed direct to the first Polling Officer. The Polling Officer will ascertain the identity of the elector by examining the EPIC or alternative documents following the procedure prescribed under chapter XVIII. Minor discrepancies in the entries relating to elector’s name, age may be ignored. Unofficial Voter slip which the elector brings only serves the purpose of locating the entries relating to an elector roll.
Second Polling Officer
Apply ink in the left forefinger as a line from top end of the nail to the bottom of the first joint of the left forefinger. Wait for sufficient time till the indelible ink mark dries up. The Second Polling Officer will be in charge of the Register of Voters in Register 17A. He/she will be responsible for maintaining in that register the proper account of electors whose identity has been established and who vote at the polling station. Write the last four digit of I-D Proof name of identification document in the remarks column of Register 17A, write Serial .No, Part No., of the Electoral Roll. Underline the identified voters and in case of female tick mark will also be put on the left side of entry. The officer will obtain signature or thumb impression of the voters in the voter register. Issue voter slip. If a person refuses to cast his/her vote, application of ink, do not allow voting.
Third Polling Officer
The Third Polling Officer will be in-charge of the control unit of the voting machine. He/she will be seated on the same table where the Second Polling Officer sits. The Third Polling Officer will allow the elector to proceed to the voting compartment only on the basis of the voter’s slip issued by the Second Polling Officer and strictly in accordance with the serial number indicated in that slip. He will active the Ballot Unit(s) kept in the voting compartment by pressing the “Ballot” button on the control unit. Before allowing the elector to proceed to the voting compartment, the Third Polling Officer will also check and ensure that the elector’s left hand forefinger still bears a clear indelible ink mark. (If the indelible ink mark is found removed, the mark may again be made on the forefinger).
SDO(C) Atrila had informed the trainees to bring two recent passport size photos each for IDs. About four hundred people attended the training programme.
