ELECTORAL ACT (as amended at 24th January 2008)
7.
A chief election agent, election agent or observer shall not obstruct or accost any
voter at a polling station or on his or her way thereto or therefrom, nor interview any
voter at a polling station.
8.
A chief election agent, election agent or observer shall not do anything which
compromises the secrecy of the ballot.
9.
If a chief election agent or election agent considers that there has been any
irregularity in the conduct of the poll or the counting of the votes, the chief election
agent or election agent shall not bring such irregularity or apparent irregularity to the
attention of any electoral officer other than the presiding officer or constituency
elections officer.
10.
If an observer considers that there has been any irregularity in the conduct of the
poll or the counting of the votes, the observer shall bring such irregularity or apparent
irregularity to the attention of the presiding officer or constituency elections officer at
the polling station, constituency centre or ward or council centre concerned. .
11.
Not more than one election agent for any candidate shall be permitted to be in a
polling station at any time.
12.
A chief election agent or election agent may not be present at a polling station,
constituency centre or ward or council centre located in a constituency or ward or
council area for which his or her candidate was not nominated.
13.
In the case of an election to the office of President⎯
(a) a candidate’s provincial or constituency chief election agents shall not be
permitted to enter any polling station, nor witness the verification of
statements of presiding officers or the counting of votes, outside the province
or constituency, as the case may be, for which they were appointed;
(b) not more than the prescribed number of the candidate’s election agents may
be present at the counting of votes.
14.
A chief election agent, election agent or observer shall, generally, conduct
himself or herself in a manner conducive to the peaceful, dignified and orderly
conduct of the poll.
SECOND SCHEDULE (Section 110)
DETERMINATION AND NOTIFICATION OF RESULTS OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Determination and declaration of result of Presidential poll
1.(1) After the number of votes received by each candidate as shown in each pollingstation return has been added together in terms of subparagraph (i) of subsection (3) of section
sixty-five and the resulting figure added to the number of postal votes received by each
candidate, the constituency elections officer shall forthwith—
(a) record on the constituency return the votes obtained by each candidate and the
number of rejected ballot papers in such a manner that the results of the count for
each polling station are shown on the return; and
(b) display the completed constituency return to those present and afford each candidate
or his or her polling agent the opportunity to subscribe their signatures thereto; and
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