The State Election Commission will be dispatching photo voter slips to voter’s residences a week prior to the poll day on May 12.
The slips will be delivered by booth-level officers to residences under the jurisdiction of the corresponding polling booths, according to Mr. Shivashankar, CEO, ZP, and chairman of the SVEEP (Systematic Voters Education and Electoral Participation) committee. If the voter is not available, the slips will be handed over the Constituency Returning officers in a sealed envelope, he said.
On Monday, Mr. Shivashankar claimed that measures were being taken to ensure all voters would vote this year. The voters need not depend on candidates or other agents to get the slips as was a practice all these years. This would also avoid last minute confusion.
The district administration has identified booths where polling was poor in previous elections, and measures were taken to enthuse the voters in such booths. It identified 256 booths where low voting was recorded in the previous elections.
House visits, jathas, and human chains were some of the programmes organised where less polling was recorded in previous elections, he said. Booth-level awareness groups were formed. Over 650 electoral literacy clubs were formed in educational institutions.
Ramps, drinking water, continuous power supply and other facilities will be provided at all the booths in the district.
