The Election Commission has fixed April 15 as the last date for receipt of applications for postal ballot papers for general elections to the National Assembly and the provincial assemblies.
This facility, under the law, has been extended only to the persons in government service, members of armed forces, holders of public offices, their wives and such of their children as are registered voters and ordinarily reside with them provided they are stationed at a place other than the place in which their home constituency is situated. Persons detained in prison or held in other custody are also entitled to vote by postal ballot.
The last date for postal ballot application for polling personnel and police personnel as are posted at a polling station other than one at which they are entitled to cast their vote, has been fixed as April 25, 2013.
Persons who are appointed to act as presiding officers, assistant presiding officers and polling officers and police personnel who are assigned duties at the polling stations, can apply for postal ballot by April 25, 2013 by which time their appointments as polling personnel are expected to have been finalised and the fact of their appointment indicated to them.
