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(1)Voting at every election for local government councils shall be by secret ballot using one ballot box at each polling station for candidates contesting for the same post.
(2)At the polling station, no presiding officer or any other person shall inquire about or attempt to see for whom a voter intends to vote.
(3)On polling day, all voters intending to vote shall form one line from a point at least twenty metres away from the table at which each voter is to place the authorised mark of choice on the ballot paper.
(4)Voters who have cast their votes and all other persons in the vicinity of the polling station, other than election officers, candidates, agents, observers and monitors, shall stand or sit at least one hundred metres away from the table mentioned in subsection (3).
(5)Subject to subsection (7), at every polling station there shall be positioned—
(a)a table where every voter shall report for identification in the voters roll and collection of a ballot paper;
(b)a second table positioned at least fifteen metres from the first table, with an ink pad, two pens, each pen being attached to the table with a string measuring about one metre in length where every voter shall proceed and vote for a candidate of the voter's choice by fixing a tick or a thumb print in the space provided in the box against the picture of the candidate on the ballot paper and, after voting, fold the ballot paper lengthwise to enable it to be deposited in the slot of the ballot box and on this table, a basin or a similar object into which a voter shall place the ballot paper to mark the candidate;
(c)a third table located at least ten metres away from the second table and on top of which shall rest a ballot box into which every voter shall deposit the folded ballot paper in the full view of ail present; and
(d)a fourth table located at least ten metres from the ballot box where every voter, after depositing the ballot paper into the ballot box, shall proceed and have the thumb on the voter's right hand, marked with indelible ink to indicate that the voter has cast the ballot.
(6)Candidates' agents shall sit one metre away from the table referred to in subsection (5)(a).
(7)Where for purposes of subsection (5)(b)—
(a)the voter has no thumb on the right hand, the process specified in that paragraph shall be applied to the finger nearest to the position of the thumb on the voter's right hand;
(b)the voter has no right hand, the process shall be applied to the left hand;
(c)a voter has no fingers on the left or right hand, the voter may mark the tip of any hand with indelible ink; or
(d)the voter has no hands, the process shall be applied to any other conspicuous part of the voter's body as the presiding officer may determine.
(8)The presiding officer at each polling station shall, at the commencement of the poll, in the presence of at least ten voters registered to vote at the polling station, open the first ballot box, turn it upside down with the open top facing down to ensure to the satisfaction of the voters present, that the ballot box is devoid of any contents and shall thereafter place the ballot box on the table in accordance with subsection (5)(d); and where more than one ballot box is used after the first is filled, the same procedure shall be followed in the full view of everyone present, prior to the placing on the table, of any additional ballot box.
(9)A person who contravenes subsection (8) commits an offence and is liable, on conviction, to a fine not exceeding twenty-four currency points or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, or both.
(10)Where another election has to be held within three months after an election in which a voter and the hand of the voter has been marked in accordance with this section, the corresponding part of the hand other than the one marked in the first election shall be marked in the subsequent election; and where this is not possible such part of the body of the voter as the presiding officer shall determine, having regard to subsections (5) and (7), shall be marked.
(11)For the purposes of subsection (5), "table" includes a desk, a box, a chair, a stool and any other object with a hard and smooth surface that can be used as a table.
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