Three former chief election commissioners (CECs) have highlighted the challenges of extending voting facilities to migrants within and outside India.
In the 2019 polls, a third of eligible voters did not vote, and most of these are believed to be migrant workers.
The webinar by poll watchdog Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) on “Voting Facilities for Migrant Workers” came almost two months after the Election Commission of India (EC) told the Union law ministry that a mere change in the rules by the government, which would not require an amendment by Parliament, could extend electronically transferable postal ballots to overseas voters.