Special procedure for preventing personation of electors

With a view to preventing personation of electors, provision shall be made in the rules made under this Act,- (a) for the marking with indelible ink of the thumb or any other finger of every elector who applies for a ballot paper or papers for the purpose of voting at a polling station before delivery of such paper or papers to him; (b) for the production before the Presiding Officer or a Polling Officer by every such elector his identity card, if issued, before the delivery of a ballot paper or papers is made to him; and (c) for prohibiting the delivery of any ballot paper to any person for voting at a polling station, if such person at the time of applying for ballot paper has such a mark on his thumb or any other finger or does not produce on demand his identity card, if issued before the Presiding Officer or Polling Officer.