ELECTORAL ACT ____________________________________________________________________________________ (7) The Commissioner-General of Police shall ensure that sufficient numbers of police officers are available in the immediate vicinity of each polling station to provide immediate assistance if called upon in terms of subsection (6). [Subsection inserted by s. 40 of Act No. 17 of 2007 and amended by s. 18 of Act No. 3 of 2012] (7a) Police officers referred to in subsection (7)— (a) shall have the sole functions of maintaining order and preventing contraventions of the law so that voters may freely cast their votes; (b) shall not interfere with the electoral processes at the polling station; (c) when inside a polling station, shall exercise their duties under the direction and instruction of the presiding officer. [Subsection inserted by s. 18 of Act No. 3 of 2012] (8) The presiding officer shall record in detail every incident in which order at the polling station and the area surrounding it was disrupted and, in particular, every occasion in which a person was expelled or required to leave the polling station or its surrounding area in terms of this section. [Subsection inserted by s. 40 of Act No. 17 of 2007] 56 Entitlement to vote, number of votes and identification of voters (1) At an election held for the purpose of electing the President, members of the National Assembly and councillors— (a) every voter registered on a ward voters roll shall be entitled to vote in the ward concerned for— (i) a Presidential candidate; and (ii) one of the candidates who have been duly nominated for election as a constituency member in the constituency in which the ward is situated; and (iii) one of the candidates who have been duly nominated for election as councillor for the ward; [Paragraph amended by s. 24 of Act No. 6 of 2018] and (b) except as provided in Parts XIV (“Postal Voting”), a voter shall not be entitled to vote otherwise than at a polling station located in a ward for which he or she is registered as a voter on the ward voters roll; and (c) subject to sections 57 and 58, a voter shall not be entitled to vote more than once for a Presidential candidate or a candidate who has been duly nominated for the constituency or ward referred to in paragraph (a). [Subsection substituted by s. 25 of Act No. 6 of 2014] (1a) At a by-election, every voter registered on a polling station voters roll shall be entitled to vote at that polling station for one of the candidates— (a) who have been duly nominated for election as a constituency member in the constituency in which the polling station is situated; or (b) who have been duly nominated for election as councillor for the ward in which the polling station is situated; as the case may be. [Subsection inserted by s. 24 of Act No. 6 of 2018] (2) The presiding officer may put to an applicant for a ballot paper such questions as he or she considers necessary to ascertain whether or not the applicant is registered as a voter on the voters roll for the ward. (3) Unless otherwise directed by the Commission, the presiding officer shall require an applicant for a ballot paper to produce his or her voters registration certificate or proof of identity, and if— (a) the applicant is registered as a voter on the voters roll for the ward; and 78