ELECTORAL ACT ____________________________________________________________________________________ (8) Any power given to the Electoral Court by this section may be exercised by a judge of the Electoral Court in chambers. PART XIV POSTAL VOTING [Part XIV substituted by Act No. 3 of 2012] 71 Interpretation in Part XIV The reference in section 73(2)(b)(ii) to a “letter” includes a reference to a letter sent by way of electronic mail, under the following conditions— (a) the sender (that is, the person referred to in 73(2)(b)(ii)A or B) and recipient (that is, the applicant for a postal vote) must both use official electronic mail addresses; and (b) the electronic mail sent by sender must be authenticated by the electronic signature of the sender; and (c) the electronic mail must be embodied in a hard copy printed by the recipient, which copy shall be the “letter” referred to in 73(2)(b)(ii). 72 Persons who may vote by post Where an election is to be held in a constituency, a person who is registered as a voter on the roll for that constituency shall be entitled to vote by post in terms of this Part if, on all polling days in the election, he or she will be— (a) on duty as a member of a disciplined force or as an electoral officer; or (b) on duty in the service of the Government outside Zimbabwe; or (c) outside Zimbabwe as the spouse of a person referred to in paragraph (b); and so unable to vote at a polling station in the constituency. [Section substituted by s. 33 of Act No. 6 of 2014 and amended by Part VI of Schedule to Act No. 3 of 2016] 73 Application for postal vote (1) A person who wishes to vote by post may apply to the Chief Elections Officer for a postal ballot paper: Provided that applications for postal ballot papers by members of a disciplined force may be made to the Chief Elections Officer only through their commanding officers. (2) An application for a postal ballot paper shall be— (a) in the prescribed form; and (b) signed by the applicant and accompanied by— (i) a certified copy of the voter’s national registration certificate; and (ii) except in the case where the application is submitted (individually or as part of a batch of such applications) by a commanding officer on behalf of a member of a disciplined force, a letter from— A. the applicant’s head of Ministry, head of department or head of station; or B. the head of Zimbabwe’s Embassy or diplomatic or consular mission in the foreign State where the applicant is employed; stating the capacity in which the applicant is employed by the Government and where the applicant will be employed on the polling day or polling days, as the case may be, in the election; and (c) sent to the Chief Elections Officer by means of a commercial courier service or by diplomatic courier, or delivered by hand to the Chief Elections Officer (in which event 89