VOTE not for NOTE – Know your Rights

Many mails are circulating saying 49-O or I VOTE NOBODY

Example one one

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Use your voting right for a better INDIA

This is called “49-O

Why should you go and say ” I VOTE NOBODY“… because, in a ward, if a candidate wins, say by 123 votes, and that particular ward has received “49-O” votes more than 123, then that polling will be canceled and will have to be re-polled. Not only that, but the candidature of the contestants will be removed and they cannot contest the re-polling, since people had already expressed their decision on them.

This would bring fear into parties and hence look for genuine candidates for their parties for election. This would change the way; of our whole political system…. it is seemingly surprising why the election commission has not revealed such a feature to the public….

So either vote, or vote “not voting” (vote 49-O) and pass this info on…

Use your voting right for a better INDIA
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What it really mean….

49-O.   Elector  deciding  not  to  vote.-If  an  elector,  after  his electoral  roll number has been duly entered in the register of voters in  Form-17A and has put his signature or thumb impression thereon  as required  under  sub-rule (1) of rule 49L, decided not to  record  his vote,  a remark to this effect shall be made against the said entry in Form  17A  by  the  presiding  officer  and  the  signature  or  thumb impression of the elector shall be obtained against such remark.

The real inclusion of article 49-0 in the rule book is to prevent election fraud, so that other people don

One thought on “VOTE not for NOTE – Know your Rights

  1. This is a false information based on unauthenticated chain mails…
    49(O) is a section in the The Conduct of Elections Rules, 1961, which says:
    Elector deciding not to vote.-If an elector, after his electoral roll number has been duly entered in the register of voters in Form-17A and has put his signature or thumb impression thereon as required under sub-rule (1) of rule 49L, decided not to record his vote, a remark to this effect shall be made against the said entry in Form 17A by the presiding officer and the signature or thumb impression of the elector shall be obtained against such remark.

    There is no provision of any cancellation of polls or even a re-polls.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/49-O

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