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ECI Revises ‘Rule’ For Polling Agents

  • 24 Mar 2021

  • The Election Commission of India (ECI) has revised its rules for polling agents, allowing a party to nominate a polling agent for any booth within the assembly segment where the person is an electorate.
  • Earlier, a polling agent had to be a voter of the booth where he was to be a polling agent.
  • ‘This norm will help the political parties to appoint one polling agent to each booth.
  • It will help any political party to appoint a polling agent amid the COVID-19 pandemic.