State Election Commission

The Election Commission, by appointing expenditure observers from the Indian Revenue Service, retains a watch on the person account of election expenditure. The commission takes details of the candidate's property on affidavit at the time of submitting nomination paper, who're also required to provide details of their expenditure within 30 days of the declaration of outcomes. 

The marketing campaign interval has additionally been decreased by the fee from 21 to 14 days for Lok Sabha and Assembly elections to chop down election expenditure. Since 1998, the Commission has increasingly used Electronic Voting Machines as a substitute of ballot boxes. Encouraged by this the Commission took a historic determination to make use of only EVMs for the Lok Sabha election due in 2004.

Chief Electoral Officer, Maharashtra

Thus, the Election Commission is an all-India physique in the sense that it isn't uncommon to both the Central authorities and the state governments. The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition on the by-election to the Bhabanipur assembly seat, ordering that polls shall be held as scheduled on September 30. Calcutta HC admonished West Bengal chief secretary for writing to ECI to expedite elections. HC stated, "Most offensive part is conduct of Chief Secy who projected himself more as a servant of political celebration in energy than a public servant.

" Top officials of the Election Commission are more doubtless to be known as by a parliamentary panel to transient it on electoral reforms, including remote voting, linkage of Aadhaar with voter ID card, and one uniform voter roll for all polls, sources mentioned on Monday. Postal voting in India is done solely via the "Electronically Transmitted Postal Ballot Papers " system of Election Commission of India, ballot papers are distributed to the registered eligible voters who return the votes by post.