Panaji: Covid have to pay in some countries the elderly the right to choose, with their parents or homes they took the decision to be cautious and avoid exposure to the virus.
“The officer-level booth brought the form home to inmates who are bedridden and wheelchair, but we told him we did not want to risk anyone bringing Covid in the house only for a few people,” Sister Incharge of an old age home in Salcete said.
This Assembly election, the election commission of India for the first time extended comfort postal voting facility to eighty plus and those with an inability benchmark.
They had heard, he said, that the ballot great team accompanied by police and a videographer, among others, came to postal voting.
“During a pandemic, we do not allow entry to anyone.
We are also positive, but we can not take the risk now for the sake of the other inmates,” said sister Incharge to Toi.
However, the same house would take the prisoners who could walk into the polling station.
“Our neighbors always make arrangements to bring the prisoners we were having their voices here.
In other cases the cubicle pollingnya fall in constituencies other, their vote would be a waste.
We asked for their cards to be transferred, but it was not done,” he said.
At a retirement home in South Goa, the prisoner is a registered voter in Bardez and Tiswadi Talukas.
“We told them that we will make arrangements vehicle to carry them but they were not interested.
Some can not run well and some do not store it properly and do not want to travel that far because they are in their 80s, especially in view of the pandemic,” said the director of the house told TOI.
At the center of the production-cum-production St Francis Xavier in Old Goa for the disabled, prisoners will vote in the polling station, which is within their own campus that cause minimum discomfort to them.
In a house for aged in Bardez, some inmates do not have voting cards and one of Mumbai does not have the document and will not vote.
Except for them, the rest will exercise their franchise on V-Day.
Another NGO said that the prisoners are sick and that they also face logistical problems with so many inmates had to move up and down on the day.
“Sent to choose for Covid is a bad idea because they come from constituencies are different.
Many cards have Aadhaar, but no ballot.
We can not make ballot for so many prisoners because we are the rented premises and it can backfire in the future because there are no owners who want their addresses to be used for the robbery of land in the vicinity, “said Incharge.
In another house in Bardez, almost all narapidanya vote through postal ballots and the rest will be taken to the polls on Monday.
“Facilities postal ballot beneficial for our inmates, but the team voting comes around 18.30.
Some of our inmates is bedridden and some blind so that should occur during the day, but we somehow managed,” the nurse said.
Polling Goa: Because Covid’s fear wins, some seniors at home to stay away from voting today
