• State election commissions (SECs) have power and status on par with the central Election Commission of India (ECI).
• SEC conducts elections to local bodies like village panchayats, zilla parishads, municipal councils and corporations.
• In Maharashtra, in a five-year period, it has to conduct almost 29,000 elections, and get around 250,000 elected people’s representatives.
• The SEC’s job is even complex than the ECI’s because local elections are close contests and winning margins can be very slim.

Electoral reforms by Maharashtra election commission :-

• The state election commission of Maharashtra has blazed a trail in a series of electoral reforms in the last few years.
• It is the first one to go fully digital in the filing of nomination papers and affidavits of all candidates. This has eliminated most errors and enabled instant dissemination of information to the voters.
• It is the first SEC in the country to cancel registration of more than 250 political parties for failure to submit audited accounts in tim
• It is also the first one to disqualify an elected representative for failure to comply with expense disclosure rules.
• It took a giant step recently by giving teeth to the idea of the NOTA (none of the above) button.
• Maharashtra State Election Commission issued an order stating that if the None of the Above or NOTA option receives the maximum votes in a constituency, then none of
• the contesting candidates will be declared the winner and fresh elections will be held.
• This is a landmark order that transforms the very nature of NOTA five years after it was first introduced by the Supreme Court.

A Person who will be evidently founded to conduct illegal practice during electoral practices will be genuinely eliminated from the race.
The consequences of reforms would be fruitful & improve the existing laws practically .Moreover it would be a plus point to NOTA.