With polling for the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) scheduled on January 15, election authorities have detailed a simple, secure and time-efficient voting process for citizens to elect their civic representatives.
Voters must carry a valid photo identity card to their designated polling stations. Upon arrival, polling officials will verify the voter’s name in the electoral roll and apply indelible ink on one finger to prevent multiple voting. The voter is then guided to a screened voting compartment to ensure complete ballot secrecy.
Voting will be conducted through Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) under the multi-member Prabhag system prescribed by the State Election Commission (SEC), Maharashtra.
Each ward seat within a Prabhag is displayed separately on the EVM to enable accurate voting.
To assist voters, the ward seats are colour-coded: seat ‘A’ in white, ‘B’ in light pink, ‘C’ in light yellow, ‘D’ in light blue and ‘E’ in light green. Voters are advised to carefully identify their respective ward seats before casting their votes.
Inside the booth, voters must press the blue button corresponding to their chosen candidate’s name and election symbol. A confirmation beep is heard only after all ward-wise votes in a Prabhag are cast, indicating that the votes have been successfully recorded.
There is no VVPAT or paper slip in this election. Once the beep sounds, the vote is automatically locked and cannot be changed or cancelled, even in case of an error.Most Prabhags in Nagpur have four ward seats, requiring voters to cast four separate votes. Prabhag No. 38 is an exception, with only three wards. Voters from this Prabhag are urged to exercise extra caution, as only three ward options will appear on the EVM.
Election officials said the entire voting process usually takes less than two minutes, and a careful button press followed by the confirmation beep ensures that every vote is securely recorded.
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