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Option 1 : 1, 2 and 3
The correct answer is Option 1, i.e 1, 2 and 3.
- All the statements are correct.
- An Overseas elector is a person who is a citizen of India and who has not acquired citizenship of any other country and is otherwise eligible to be registered as a voter and who is absenting from his place of ordinary residence in India owing to his employment, education or otherwise is eligible to be registered as a voter in the constituency in which his place of residence in India as mentioned in his passport is located.
- According to the provisions of Section 20A of the Representation of People Act, 1950, an NRI settled in a foreign land can become an elector in the electoral roll in India.
- So, he must be a citizen of India to be eligible for voting in the Lok Sabha elections. Hence, Statement 1 is correct.
- Further, his name must figure in the electoral roll of the constituency he would be voting from to be eligible to vote. Hence, Statement 2 is correct.
- Such an overseas elector is allowed to vote in person at the polling station on the production of his/her original passport.
- Since e-voting is not allowed in India, thus the NRI voters are left with just two options i.e. Postal ballots and proxy voting.
- Postal ballots, in which a voter exercises his/her franchise through the post is available only for people on election duty, armed forces personnel, and electors subject to preventive detention.
- The option of proxy voting is available only for armed forces, police, and government officials posted outside India, not for all NRI voters.
- The person can authorize another residing in the same polling booth area to cast a vote on his/her behalf.
- This option is currently available for wives of the above-mentioned personnel, but not for the husbands.
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Hence NRI/ overseas Indian voters are required to be present in India for voting. Hence, Statement 3 is also correct.
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