Diid you about 49-O?

Since the ballot paper / Electronic voting machine (EVM) contains only the list of candidates, a voter cannot record his vote under Section 49-O directly. He must inform the presiding officer at the election booth. This violates the secrecy of the ballot. However, with paper ballot a different method is used to "waste" ones vote, which is stamping on multiple candidates. In fact this was the standard method of giving null votes without violating secrecy before the advent of the EVM.

At present, in an election, a winner will be declared irrespective of the number of 'non-votes'. However, a note of every 'non-vote' will be made with the Election Officer, and the total number of non-voters will, presumably, be available under the Right to Information Act.

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information taken from wikipedia

and here is an e-mail recieved from one of my friend

What if you wish to vote no body in the elections tomorrow…..please do not stay at home, instead use the power of rule 49’O…
 
The rule says :

"In a particular constituency, if a voter has dislike to all of the candidates competing there,

Then he can show his dislike to all of them by registering for 49'O.

Steps for doing this :
1. while registering the name by the time of voting, convey the
booth officials that "I want to go for 49'O".
2. Register your signature in the 49'O form available there.

Done.

Now, if the number of 49'O count is larger than that of the winning candidates total vote count, then a re-election is called there.

More than all, the shameful fact is, this 49'O is available ever since 1960, but it is in no way conveyed to the people. Neither the government communicate this, nor did the election commission.

As long as the people are unaware of this one, the political parties are enjoying by winning the election and ditching our country.

To stop this disaster to continue further, we don't need to take a sword and fight against the government.

Just help every citizen to know that they have such a powerful weapon which  can be used for ensuring their welfare.

None of the media will be ready to publish this 49'O.

Let us do this by ourselves!!!!!

Communicate this information with all your family, friends, neighbors as much as you can and let them know their right. Not only, we get a satisfaction that we have done a good service for our country's welfare.This is very well equal to what our patriots have done for the independence of our country. Very less time left before the next election drama.

Before that lets make sure that everyone speaks about this word "49'O".

i heard that this is a fake provision and doesnt really exist. does anyone know for sure that this is possible.

here is the extract of 49-O of THE CONDUCT OF ELECTIONS RULES, 1961