State Election Commission 
Whoever at an election applies for a voting paper or votes in the name of any other whether living or dead, or in a fictitious name, or who having voted once at such election applies at the same election for paper in his own name, and whoever abets, procures or attempts to procure the voting by any person in any such way, offence of personation at an election.
Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to a person who has been authorized to vote as proxy for an elector under for the time being in force in so far as he votes as a proxy for such elector.