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Bihar Assembly Polls: ECI To Facilitate Elderly, PwD Electors To Vote Through Postal Ballot

The Election Commission has selected house sparrow (also known as gauraiya) and Gaur (Indian bison) as mascots to spread awareness among the voters.

By Dev Raj/Santu Das

New Delhi: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday said it would facilitate elderly, PwD and service voters to vote using postal ballot in the Bihar Assembly elections.

The poll panel said as per Section 60 (c) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, it has notified that electors above the age of 85 years and electors with benchmark disabilities may cast their vote through postal ballot. "Such electors can avail this facility using Form 12 D and submit to the Returning Officer th

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