(2) The maximum number of chief election agents, election agents and observers who may
be present within any polling station or within one hundred metres of any polling station, and at
the counting of votes and the opening of postal ballot boxes, shall be as prescribed in the Second
Schedule.
(3) A constituency elections officer shall, in addition to the persons entitled in terms of this
section to be present at the counting of votes, allow not more than the maximum number of
journalists prescribed in the Second Schedule to be present on these occasions.
Privileges of observers, chief election agents and election agents at a polling station
20.(1) Observers, chief election agents and election agents shall be permitted to witness—
(a) the dipping of voters’ hands in visible indelible ink for voting purposes;
(b) the checking of voters’ hands for the presence of visible indelible ink to ensure that they
have not voted more than once;
(c) the confirmation that each voter appears on the voters’ roll and the issuing to each such
voter of only one ballot paper;
(d) the confirmation that a line is drawn through the number and surname of the voter on
the roll as evidence that the voter has received a ballot-paper;
(e) the insertion of the ballot-paper by the voter into the ballot box.
(2) The Commission may direct the manner the precise manner in which hands (or, in the
absence thereof, other limbs) shall be dipped for the purposes of subsection (1)(a) and (b).
(3) Candidates, chief election agents or election agents shall be permitted to affix—
(a) their signatures or thumb-prints upon the presiding officer’s seal or to affix their seals
to the aperture of the ballot box in accordance with sections 61(1)(a) and 69(1)(a) of the
Act; and
(b) their seals on the packets referred to in section 69 (1) (b) of the Act:
Provided that no seal of a candidate, chief election agent or election agent shall bear a
prohibited symbol or indicate any affiliation to a political party.
Election agents
21.(1) For the purposes of section 93(f) and section 95(1) of the Act, no candidate or his or
her chief election agent shall⎯
(a) in the case of a candidate for election as a member of Parliament, appoint more than
four election agents per polling station in his or her constituency;
(b) in the case of a candidate for election to the office of President, appoint more than four
election agents per polling station for that election:
Provided that at no time shall the number of election agents per candidate within any polling
station or within one hundred metres of any polling station exceed the number specified in the
Second Schedule.
(2) The Chief Elections Officer shall issue each election agent with an accreditation
certificate, and every election agent shall exhibit his or her accreditation certificate to any
electoral officer who demands to see it.
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