According to Election Commission of India (ECI), in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, service Voters are going to play a crucial and decisive role in cases of close contests.
About:
Meaning: Service voter are those who have service qualification. They include member of Armed Forces of the Union of India, members of Armed Police forces of the States serving outside that state and persons employed under Government of India on posts outside India.
Eligible Organizations: As per existing arrangements, members of India Army, Navy and Air force, Boarder Road Organisation, BSF, ITBP, Assam Rifles, NSG, CRPF, CISF and SSB are eligible to be registered as service voters.
Proxy voting: A Service Voter can cast his/her vote by proxy also.
They may appoint (By applying to returning officer in Form 13 F of ECI) any person as his/her proxy to cast vote on his/her behalf in his/her at the polling station.
Proxy should be a registered voter of that constituency.
Number of service voters: According to ECI’s data website, this year a total of 16,62,993 service voters are enrolled in the country, in comparison to the figure of 13,27,627 in 2014.
Distribution:
While States like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Rajasthan have larger number of service voters, Uttarakhand has also got around 88,600 services voters.
Garhwal parliamentary constituency has maximum number of service voter among all the five constituencies of the State, since 2004 till date.
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