an cast their votes through postal ballots as well.
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What can people who have moved away from the place of their registered votes do?
As of now, there is no provision for voters who have migrated inside the country to cast their votes through postal ballots. If you want to vote in the place you currently stay, you will have to fill up a new voter registration form and ask for your name to be deleted from the old list.
Can NRIs vote through postal ballots?
While NRIs are allowed to register as voters from the constituency of their “ordinary residence” (the address for which you have proof like passport, ration card and so on), they will have to vote in person from a polling booth. They are also not allowed to vote through postal ballots.
In August, the Lok Sabha passed a bill that proposes to amend the Representation of the People Act, 1951, to enable overseas electors to appoint proxies to cast their votes in elections to the Lok Sabha and state assemblies. It is now pending in the Rajya Sabha.
‘Lost Votes’ because a significant chunk of people, who are registered as voters, did not cast their votes because they were unable to travel back in time for the election.
In a series of stories being run by the daily, it reported, “In the 2014 general elections, 280 million Indians who had a vote — over 18 years of age and with their names in the electoral rolls — did not vote.”
The report says while popular perception is that people don’t care enough to vote, census data shows that many of them are migrants who are unable to go back to their home towns to vote.
