Election Commission will facilitate Elderly, Divyangjan and Service voters to vote using Postal Ballot in the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections. The Commission has notified that electors above the age of 85 years and electors with benchmark disabilities may cast their vote through postal ballot.

The Commission in a statement said that such electors can avail this facility using Form 12 D and submit to the Returning Officer through their Booth Level Officer within five days of issuance of notification of election. It added that electors on essential services on the date of poll can apply for the postal ballot facility through the designated Nodal officer of their concerned department.

The Poll Body said that essential services such as Fire Services, Health, Electricity, Traffic, Ambulance Services, Aviation and long-distance Government Road Transport Corporations are covered under this facility. Media persons authorized by the Election Commission for poll day coverage have also been included in the category of absentee voters on essential services and are entitled to postal ballot facility.