Chapter 4 - Elections
for the Senate
Polling
Polling takes place on a Saturday between the hours of 8 am and 6 pm.
The Divisional Returning Officer for each electoral Division arranges
for appointment of all polling officials for the Division and makes all
necessary arrangements for equipping polling places with voting screens, ballot
boxes, ballot papers and certified lists of voters.
Candidates are prohibited from taking any part in the actual conduct of
the polling. They may appoint a scrutineer to represent them at each polling
place. The scrutineer has the right to observe the sealing of the empty ballot
box before the poll commences at 8 am; observe the questioning of voters by the
officer issuing ballot papers; object to the right of any person to vote; and
observe voting by illiterate voters and voters in hospitals and prisons and those
with disabilities.
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