NRIs & Postal voting rights

Question 1

How will it be done if done anyways?

Answer 1

The postal ballots will be sent to NRIs

electronically and they will send these ballots after choosing their candidate via post

Question 2

As of now,Who is provided with these rights?

Answer 2

service voters

1. being a member of the armed Forces of the Union; or a member of a force to which provisions of the Army Act.
2. member of an Armed Police Force of a State, and serving outside that State

3.person who is employed under the Government of
India, in a post outside India

Question 3

What was rules in this regard before 2010?

Answer 3

Indian citizen who is an eligible voter
and was residing abroad for more than six months owing to employment, education or otherwise, would not have been able to vote in elections. This was because the NRI’s name was deleted from electoral rolls if he or she stayed outside the country for more than six months at a stretch.

Question 4

Changes after After the passing of the Representation of the People
(Amendment) Act, 2010?

Answer 4

eligible NRIs who had stayed abroad beyond six months have been enabled to vote, but only in person at the polling station

Question 5

What is Section 20-1A, Part III
of the Representation of
the People Act?

Answer 5

qualifying “a person absenting himself
temporarily from his place of ordinary
residence shall not by reason thereof cease to be ordinarily resident therein”

Question 6

What is conduct of election rules,2016?

Answer 6

The Conduct of Election Rules, 1961 was amended in 2016 to allow service voters to use the Electronically Transmitted Postal Ballot System.

Question 7

What is ETPBS and how does it function?

Answer 7

The Conduct of Election Rules, 1961 was amended in 2016 to allow service voters to use the ETPBS. Under this system, postal ballots are sent electronically to registered
service voters. The service voter can then download the ETPB (along with a declaration form and covers), register
their mandate on the ballot and send it to the returning officer of the constituency via ordinary mail.The post will include an attested declaration form (after being
signed by the voter in the presence of an appointed senior officer who will attest it). The postal ballot must reach the returning officer by 8 a.m. on the day of the counting of results.