As many as 26,000 government officials and employees drafted for election duty have to take the postal ballots and drop them in the boxes put up in 48 postal ballot facilitation centres in 10 Assembly constituencies in the district on April 26.
The practice of officials and employees taking postal ballots and submitting them directly or sending them by post is dispensed with under the new system introduced by the Election Commission. The officials and employees have to reach the specified polling centre by 8 a.m. on Saturday, produce their election duty allotment letter, voter ID card or any other document of identity and fill Form No. 12. to get a postal ballot.
The official or employee concerned should cast his vote to any Lok Sabha and Assembly candidate of his choice and put the ballot paper in the box at the centre. The Returning Officers would supervise the polling centres in an Assembly constituency and polling agents of contestants of political parties would be present during the postal ballot polling. The process would be akin to that on the usual polling day, but confined only to casting postal ballots.
Facilitation centresEight postal ballot facilitation centres were set up in the Government Municipal Girls High School near Potti Sreeramulu circle in Kadapa, two polling centres in Railway Kodur tahsildar office, five centres in Pulivendula new tahsildar office, six centres in Saraswathi junior college in Kamalapuram, three centres in Yeddula Venkata Subbamma Municipal High School in Proddatur, five centres in Zilla Parishad high school in Mydukur, said District Collector K. Sasidhar.
In addition, six polling centres were set up in Balaji high school in Jammalamadugu, four centres in ZP high school in Badvel, six centres in the District Institute of Education and Training (DIET) in Rayachoti and three centres in the Government junior college in Rajampet. In all, 40,000 postal ballots were readied and 26,000 postal ballots would be issued to those on election duty, excluding the security personnel.
