The Centre has amended the Conduct of Elections Rules, 1961 enabling service voters, including armed forces personnel, to cast their vote in elections through e-postal ballot.<br/><br/>Under this system a blank postal ballot paper would be transmitted to them electronically. This would cut short the delay experienced in the present system in two-way transmission of ballot paper by the postal services.<br/><br/>An official release said, the technical team of the Election Commission has developed the system to transmit blank postal ballot electronically to the voter. Voters entitled to postal ballot such as service voters, can download the postal ballot and print the blank postal ballot and after marking his vote in the blank postal ballot,would return the same to the concerned Returning Officer by post as in the present system of postal ballot. <br/><br/>The Commission proposed that the all the categories of voters eligible for postal ballot may be allowed to cast their votes through this new system. However, on a pilot basis, the e-postal ballot system has been introduced for service voters consisting of central para military forces, other forces subject to the provisions of the Army Act, armed forces of a State serving outside that State and those employed under the Central Government in a post outside India.