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• Cabinet has recently cleared a proposal to extend proxy voting to Overseas Indians and NRIs by amending electoral laws.
• Presently, NRIs and overseas Indians are free to cast their votes in constituencies where they are registered.
• It requires the amendment of Representation of the People Act. After the amendment, proxy voting would also be allowed as other means to cast their votes in assembly and Lok Sabha elections from overseas.
• Proxy voting is a form of voting whereby a member may delegate his or her voting power to a representative, to enable a vote in absence.
• Currently, only service personnel are permitted to vote through proxy.
• However, the facility for NRIs will not be the same as that enjoyed by service personnel.
• Voters in the armed forces can nominate their relatives as permanent proxy to vote on their behalf. But NRIs cannot nominate one proxy for all polls.
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