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Brief Profiles of Countries, EMBs and Partner Organisations of A-WEB

2. Website Address  For Deletion or Objection in electoral roll fill form
www.eci.gov.in 7 (link to online form)

3. Nature of EMB  Fill up Form 8 (Link to online form) for any
Independent change in (Name, Photo, Age, EPIC Number, Ad-
dress, Date of birth, Age, Name of relative, Type
4. No. of Members in EMB of relation, Gender).
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 In case of shifting from one place of residence to
5. Terms of office another place of residence within the same con-
6 Years (or to age 65 whichever is the earlier) stituency please fill Form 8A (Link to online form).
4. Name of the Document viz Electoral Photo
6. EMB Members selected by Identity Card
President
Electoral Photo Identity Card (EPIC)
7. Chairperson’s Appointing Authority 5. Voter turnout in last National Elections
President
67.40%

8. Names of Elections conducted by EMB 6. Voting Method
President of India, Vice President of India, Lok Electronic Voting Machines with VVPAT Paper Au-
Sabha, Rajya Sabha, State Legislative Assembly, dit Trail
State Legislative Councils.
7. Voting Process
9. Titles of Electoral Legislation(s) An Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) is a stand-
Article 324 of the Constitution
alone vote recording machine working on battery
(B) ELECTORAL PROCESS without any network connectivity. It consists of two
Units – a Control Unit and a Balloting Unit – joined
1. Total Population by a five-meter cable. The Control Unit is with the
Total: 1384 Million (Oct 2019) Presiding Officer or a Polling Officer and the Ballot-
Male: 715 Million Female: 669 Million ing Unit is placed inside the voting compartment.
The Polling Officer is in charge of the Control Unit
2. Registered Electors who presses the Ballot Button before each vote is
Total: 912 Million (Dec 2019) cast. The voter casts her/ his vote by pressing the
Male 473 Million Female 438 Million
blue button on the Balloting Unit against the candi-
3. Method of voter registration date and symbol of her/ his choice. Voter Verifiable
Election commission of India offers online voter Paper Audit Trail Machine is attached to the EVM.
registration for Indian citizens who have attained When a vote is cast, a paper slip is printed in VVPAT
the age of 18 on the qualifying date (1st of Janu- and the Voter can see for 7 seconds the vote cast
ary of the year of revision of electoral roll). Citizen, by him as confirmation. The paper slip falls into the
can enroll himself/herself as General Voter and fill machine and is kept in safe custody for use at later
Form 6 online at National Voters’ Service Portal. stage as per rules.
Registered voters should also check their enrol-
ment status. The EVM was first introduced in 1982 in a bye-elec-

 General Voters need to fill Form 6 (Link to online tion in the South Indian state of Kerala. Since 2004,
EVMs are fully used by the ECI in conducting gen-
form). This form is also for ‘First time voters’ and eral elections to the Lok Sabha. It is considered as
‘voters who have shifted to another constituen- a national pride of Indian electoral democracy
cy’
 NRI Voter need to fill form 6A (Link to online 8. Postal Vote
form) ETPBS (Electronically Transmitted Postal Bal-

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