GUWAHATI: While prisoners in India are not allowed to vote, people under preventive detention can cast their votes through postal ballots.
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.
While Non-Resident Indians (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 which is currently pending in the Rajya Sabha.
Voting for five assembly elections would begin on March 27, the Election Commission had announced, with Assam all set to hold three-phase polls and West Bengal to hold eight-phase ones.
The final counting for all the seats will be held on May 2.
