ELECTORAL ACT ____________________________________________________________________________________ voter in the constituency who has been issued with a postal ballot paper, and shall inscribe opposite that person’s name the letters “P.V.” [Subsection amended by s. 42 of Act No. 3 of 2012] 75 Voting by post (1) A person to whom a postal ballot has been sent shall— (a) signify the candidate for whom he or she wishes to vote by secretly placing on the ballot paper a cross in accordance with section 57(c)(ii); and (b) then place the marked ballot paper in the unmarked envelope referred to in section 74(1)(d), effectively close that envelope, and then place it in the envelope marked “Ballot Paper Envelope”, and effectively close that envelope; and (c) then place the envelope marked “Ballot Paper Envelope” in the covering envelope addressed to the Chief Elections Officer; and (d) then dispatch the covering envelope by registered post or by a commercial courier service or diplomatic courier so that it is received by the Chief Elections Officer not later than noon on the fourteenth day before polling day or the first polling day, as the case may be, in the election. (2) Where more than one election is being held concurrently in a constituency and the voter marks more than one ballot paper, he or she shall— (a) place each of the marked ballot papers in a separate unmarked envelope referred to in section 74(1)(d); then (b) place each of the envelopes referred to in paragraph (a) in a separate envelope marked “Ballot Paper Envelope”; then (c) place each of the envelopes referred to in paragraph (b) in a single covering envelope addressed to the Chief Election Officer. 76 Distribution of postal ballots by Chief Elections Officer and ward elections officers (1) Upon receipt of a covering envelope dispatched in terms of section 75, the Chief Elections Officer shall open it and dispatch the enclosed ballot paper envelope, unopened, to the constituency elections officer for the constituency indicated on the back of the envelope. (2) Whenever the Chief Elections Officer sends a ward elections officer one or more ballot paper envelopes, he or she shall send an accompanying note indicating the number of envelopes that are sent. (3) The Chief Elections Officer shall keep a list of all covering envelopes received, showing— (a) the date on which they were received; and (b) the names and voter registration numbers of the voters who sent them; and (c) the constituencies to which the ballot paper envelopes were sent and the dates on which they were sent; and shall permit the list to be inspected by members of the public, free of charge, until the declaration of the result of the poll, when it shall be dealt with in terms of section 70(3). (4) The Chief Elections Officer shall ensure that each constituency elections officer receives the ballot paper envelopes sent to him or her at least seven days before the polling day or the first polling day, as the case may be, in the election concerned. (5) Upon receipt of the ballot paper envelopes dispatched in terms of subsection (4), the constituency elections officer shall forthwith distribute each ballot paper envelope to the presiding officer of the polling station indicated on the back of the envelope, together with an accompanying note indicating the number of envelopes that are sent. Subsection amended by s. 42 of Act No. 3 of 2012] 91