Indian Voters Veto Power ... so don't miss your voting next time

posted by   sndeep (13)   27 months ago (o3.indiatimes.com)

Do you know that there is a provision in our constitution, as per the1969 act, in section "49-O" that a person can go to the polling booth,confirm his identity, get his finger marked and convey the presiding election officer that he doesn’t want to vote anyone!!!!!
Now the Question you’ll ask is why should you go and say " I vote nobody"... Because, if a candidate wins, say by x votes, and that particular constituency has received 49-O votes more than x, then that polling will be cancelled and will have to be re-polled.It doesn’t stop at that, the candidature of the contestant will be removed and he cannot contest the re-polling, sincepeople had already expressed their decision on him.