Who is a Service Voter?

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You are a service voter if you are currently a¹:

Member of Armed Forces – Army, Navy and Air Force.
Member of Assam Rifles, Central Reserve Police Force, Border Security Force, Seema Sashastra Bal, Indo-Tibetan Border Police, Central Industrial Security Force, General Engineering Reserve Force and Border Roads Organisation under Border Roads Development Board.
Member of Armed police force of a state, who are serving outside of that state.
Person who is employed by the Government of India in a post outside India, like those working for Embassies and High Commissions outside India.
Wife of someone in any of the above

Upon leaving or retiring from any of these services, you will no longer be considered a service voter.

Service Voters Portal, Election Commission of India, available at http://servicevoter.nic.in/ [↩]

This post deals voting process.Before you go to the polling station, please verify if your name is on the electoral roll of your constituency.

An Electronic Voting Machine consists of two Units – a Control Unit and a Balloting Unit – joined by a five-meter cable.

Through the Lok Sabha elections, you are electing the Members of Parliament who will represent your constituency at the national level.

A registered service voter in home constituency and posted elsewhere during elections, will be sent postal ballots.

You may vote without a voting card. You can carry any of the acceptable government documents to the polling station to cast your vote.

All citizens over the age of 18 has the right to participate and vote in national, state, district as well as local government body elections.