Final Cover Election Expenditure - Election Commission of India

5. The day-to-day account maintained in the aforesaid register together with the supportingdocuments shall be made available for inspection once in three days during the process ofelection to the District Election Officer/Returning Officer/Election Observer appointed by theCommission or any other such authority nominated by the Commission in this behalf.6. The District Election Officer and the Election Observer shall prepare a schedule of inspectionwhereby a three-day cycle of furnishing of accounts will be set for every candidate in such amanner that on each day, accounts of one or more contesting candidates are made availablefor scrutiny to the concerned officers. In other words, the turn of a candidate to furnish hisaccounts for scrutiny will fall after very third day throughout the period between the filing of hisnomination and declaration of results.7. The accounts of the candidates will be scrutinized by the District Election Officer/ReturningOfficer and/or Election Observer or by the nominated officers and they will keep two photocopiesof the relevant pages of the register. One copy of the relevant pages of the register will bedisplayed on the notice board of the Returning Officer and the other copy will be retained in aseparate file for each constituency as proof of record with the Returning Officer and furnished tothe District Election Officer on conclusion of the poll process.8. Any person desiring a copy of these day to day accounts will be provided the same by theReturning Officer subject to payment of usual copying charges.9. While lodging the accounts of the election expenses under Section 78 of the Representation ofthe People Act 1951, the candidate shall file the prescribed register along with the abstractstatements of election expenses and the prescribed affidavit prescribed vide Commission orderNo.76/2003/JS.II dated 24.10.2003.The Commission has reiterated that the above instructions should be made clear and known toall contesting candidates and the Election Observers who will be appointed by the Commissionand it shall be the complete responsibility of the District Election Officers to ensure that theinstructions of the Commission in this matter are complied with in proper manner.Kindly acknowledge receipt.143