Over 5.7 lakh senior citizens aged 85 and above and 6.13 lakh people with disabilities (PwD) in the State can opt to vote from home (VfH) during the Lok Sabha election.
Officials from the Election Commission have started the process of distributing Form 12D through which eligible vote-from-home electors can inform the Assistant Returning Officer that he or she is not in a position to go to the polling station to vote. Interested electors can give their consent in the form within five days after the poll notification is issued (March 28 for the first phase) in Karnataka. People can also download the form from the EC’s website (https://www.eci,gov,in), fill it up and submit it to their jurisdictional Returning Officer’s office within the prescribed window, officials said.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) for the first time made available the facility of VfH for those aged above 80 and certified persons with disabilities (whose disability is not less than 40% of the prescribed handicap) during the pandemic in the 2020 Bihar Assembly elections.
