{"id":17288,"date":"2016-10-28T11:57:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T11:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=17288"},"modified":"2016-10-28T11:57:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T11:57:28","slug":"e-postal-ballot-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/e-postal-ballot-system\/","title":{"rendered":"e-Postal Ballot System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Recently e-Postal Ballot System has been started for-<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) All government employees<br \/>\n(b) Receiving Indian citizenship for people living abroad<br \/>\n(c) Service voters, including armed forces personnel<br \/>\n(d) Armed forces personnel<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (c)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 21 October 2016 Government by amending rule 23 of the Conduct of Elections Rules, 1961 has enabled service voters, including armed forces personnel, to cast their vote in elections through e-postal ballot.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">This will resolve the difficulties and hardships encountered by the service voters, especially by the armed forces personnel serving the border and remote areas of the country.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Under this system a blank postal ballot paper would be transmitted to them electronically.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">This would cut short the delay experienced in the present system in two-way transmission of ballot paper by the postal services.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The armed forces personnel serving in remote and border areas would be greatly benefitted since the present system of two-way transmission of ballot paper by the postal services has not been able to meet the expectations of the service voters.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Election Commission proposed that the categories of voters mentioned at rule 18 of the Conduct of Election Rules, 1961 may be made eligible for e-postal ballot system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=151934\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=151934<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/hindirelease.aspx?relid=55775\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/hindirelease.aspx?relid=55775<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Recently e-Postal Ballot System has been started for- (a) All government employees (b) Receiving Indian citizenship for people living abroad (c) Service voters, including armed forces personnel (d) Armed forces personnel Ans: (c) Related facts: On 21 October 2016 Government by amending rule 23 of the Conduct of Elections Rules, 1961 has enabled service [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1137],"tags":[2541],"class_list":["post-17288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mis","tag-miscellaneous-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}