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- The Election Commission has named a few countries where it would like to have postal voting introduced for NRIs on a pilot basis.
- The proposal may get implemented first for voters based in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, Australia, Germany, France, and South Africa.
- Out of 1.18 lakh NRI voters, the largest number (about 89,0000) are registered to vote in Kerala.
- The second-largest cohort (roughly 7,500) are registered in Andhra Pradesh.
- India’s diaspora population is the largest in the world at 16 million people.
- Voting rights for NRIs were introduced only in 2011, through an amendment to the Representation of the People Act 1950.
- An NRI can vote in the constituency in which their place of residence, as mentioned in the passport, is located.
- They can only vote in person and will have to produce their passport in original at the polling station for establishing identity.
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