GG News Bureau
New Delhi, 18th July. Voting for the presidential election, in which Droupadi Murmu of the NDA is contesting against Yashwant Sinha of the joint opposition, started on Monday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was among the early voters when polls opened at 10 am. At 5 o’clock, the voting would come to an end.
Members of Legislative Councils and about 4,800 elected MPs and MLAs are eligible to vote in the election, while nominated MPs and MLAs are not.
In addition to the first-floor room 63 of Parliament House, which has been transformed into a polling site, voting is also happening concurrently in a number of state assemblies.
In the national capital, polling is also underway at the Delhi legislative assembly.
The vote will be counted on July 21.
In the presidential election, the secret ballot method is used, and parties cannot issue voting whips to their MPs and MLAs.
Due to the absence of a legislative assembly in Jammu and Kashmir, the value of a Member of Parliament’s vote has decreased from 708 to 700 in this presidential election.
The value of an MLA’s vote varies per state. The value of each MLA’s vote in Uttar Pradesh is 208, followed by 176 in Jharkhand and Tamil Nadu. It is 175 in Maharashtra. The value of a vote per MLA in Sikkim is seven, whereas it is nine in Nagaland and eight in Mizoram.
According to the system of proportional representation by single transferable vote, each elector can mark as many preferences as there are candidates contesting for election.
The elector must register their preferences for the candidates by placing the figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and so on, in the order of preference, in the space provided in column 2 of the vote paper.
According to the Election Commission, whereas MPs will receive a green ballot paper, MLAs will receive a pink ballot paper to vote on.
Separate colours assist the returning officer in determining the value of each MLA and MP’s vote.
In order to maintain voting secrecy, the EC has supplied a specially developed pen with violet ink to allow voters to mark their ballot papers in the presidential election.
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