Conducting free and fair elections faces severe challenges including misinformation, fake news, voter intimidation, misuse of money power, criminalization of politics, administrative partiality and ensuring accessible voting infrastructure for marginalized and vulnerable communities.
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State police officers on election duty vote using postal ballots or Election Duty Certificates, while armed forces soldiers stationed away vote electronically via the Electronically Transmitted Postal Ballot System or through designated proxies.
Defacing walls with campaign graffiti, pasting posters everywhere without authorization and mobilizing large crowds to distribute leaflets and shout loud political slogans during the mandatory forty-eight-hour pre-polling silence period violate the code.
Ishani could carry alternative government-approved photo identification documents such as a valid Passport, Driving License, PAN Card, MNREGA Job Card or a bank passbook containing an official photograph verified by authorities.
ECI provided an online voter registration portal, deployed police security, arranged wheelchairs with volunteer assistance for disabled citizens, installed transparent VVPAT slips and introduced home voting facilities for senior citizens aged eighty-five and above.