ELECTORAL ACT
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written proof of delivery shall be required) not later than noon on the fourteenth day
after nomination day in the election.
(3) Where more than one election is to be held concurrently in any constituency, a single
application form may be used by applicants who apply for postal ballot papers in all those
elections.
(4) The Commission shall ensure that application forms for postal ballot papers are
available at all Embassies and diplomatic or consular missions of Zimbabwe located in foreign
countries.
(5) The Chief Elections Officer shall number in consecutive order of their receipt all
applications for postal ballot papers received by him or her, and shall permit them to be
inspected by members of the public, free of charge, until the declaration of the result of the poll,
when they shall be dealt with in terms of section 70(3).
[Section substituted by s. 33 of Act No. 6 of 2014]
74 Issue of postal ballot papers
(1) If the Commission is satisfied, in regard to an application received not later than noon
on the fourteenth day after nomination day in the election, that the applicant is entitled to a
postal vote, the Chief Elections Officer shall issue a postal ballot paper to the applicant by
placing in an envelope addressed to the applicant—
(a) the postal ballot paper; and
(b) a covering envelope addressed to Chief Elections Officer; and
(c) a smaller envelope marked “Ballot Paper Envelope” on the back of which shall be
written the name of the voter, his or her voter registration number and the constituency
and ward in which, and the address of the polling station at which, he or she is
registered; and
[Paragraph amended by s. 42 of Act No. 3 of 2012]
(d) an unmarked envelope to be used n accordance with section 75(1)(b).
(2) Where more than one election is to be held concurrently in a constituency, the Chief
Elections Officer may enclose in a single envelope all the postal ballot papers for which the
applicant has applied together with the appropriate number of smaller envelopes referred to in
subsection (1)(c) and (d)
(3) The Chief Elections Officer shall then effectively close the envelope addressed to the
applicant and deliver it to—
(a) the nearest post office for registration and dispatch to the applicant by registered post;
or
(b) a commercial courier service for delivery to the applicant; or
(c) the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for delivery to the applicant by diplomatic courier;
and the Chief Elections Officer shall keep the receipt for such registration or a receipt provided
by the commercial courier service or Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as the case may be.
(4) The Chief Elections Officer shall keep a list of all postal ballot papers issued, which list
shall contain the following details of every person to whom such a ballot paper has been
issued—
(a) the person’s name and address; and
(b) the person’s voter registration number; and
(c) the constituency and ward in which, and the address of the polling station at which, the
person is registered;
[Paragraph amended by s. 42 of Act No. 3 of 2012]
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).
(5) The Chief Elections Officer shall ensure that the voters roll supplied to each polling
station in terms of section 76 for the purposes of the election has a line drawn through every
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