Polling for first phase of urban body elections-2014 will be held on Friday from 7 am to 5 pm. There are 60 candidates for post of Mayor, 603 for President and 9662 for Corporator in the fray. Polling for the second phase of elections will be held on December 2. Counting of votes of the first phase will be held on December 4 and second phase on December 7.
State Election Commissioner R Parasuram has informed that mock poll will be held in all polling booths from 6 am following which polling will commence at 7 am.
Polling will be held in 135 urban bodies in the first phase including 9 municipal corporations, 26 Nagar Palikas and 100 Nagar Parishads. Polling will be held at 5573 booths in 2534 wards. Total number of voters in this phase is 44 lakh 3 thousand 785 including 23 lakh 22 thousand 255 males, 20 lakh 81 thousand 319 females and 211 others.
Meanwhile, for establishing identity of a voter in urban body elections, 18 documents will be recognizable. It has been desired from voters to bring one of these documents to establish identity.
State Election Commissioner R Parasuram has informed that these documents include the EPIC card issued by the Election Commission of India, ration card/blue ration card/yellow ration card, bank/ Kisan/ post office passbook, licence of firearm, photo-bearing documents like patta, registration etc, disability certificate, passport, driving licence, PAN card, service ID card issued by central or state government, public sector undertaking, local body or any private industrial unit, student identity card, SC/ST/Backward Class/Nomadic certificates issued by competent authority, pension documents like certificate of payment of pension to ex-servicemen/ex-serviceman’s widow/dependent, railway identity card, ex-serviceman’s identity card, photo bearing Aadhar Cards and photo bearing voting slip issued by the State Election Commission.
If an identity document is available only with head of the family, then permission will be granted for using it for identity of other family members. Similarly, an identity document issued to any other member of the family can also be used for identity of other family members provided that the concerning member is identifiable on the basis of this document.
The provision to get established identity through local school teacher, government servant or any other established local person by presiding officer has been abolished now.