(7) The constituency elections officer shall, if possible before the polling day, send to the
presiding officer of every polling-station in the constituency a list of persons to whom postal
ballot papers have been issued and the presiding officer shall write on the roll the letters “P.V.”
opposite the name of each such voter.
(8) Immediately after the declaration of the result of the poll the constituency elections
officer shall transmit all the marked copies of the rolls to the Chief Elections Officer who shall
retain them for six months and, unless otherwise directed by an order of the Electoral Court,
cause them to be destroyed.
Inspection of nomination paper after close of sitting of nomination court
17. For purposes of section 46(18)(b) of the Act, a registered voter may, after the close of
the sitting of a nomination court but not later than 5 p.m. on the day following the close of the
sitting of the nomination court inspect a nomination paper of a candidate for election as a member
of Parliament.
Chief election agents and election agents : Presidential elections
18.(1) No later than forty-eight hours before polling day or the first polling day, as the case
may be, in the election concerned, a candidate for election to the office of President may appoint
not more than—
(a) two national chief election agents; and
(b) one provincial chief election agent for each province; and
(c) one constituency chief election agent for each constituency;
and shall forthwith notify in writing the full names and addresses of the persons so appointed to
the Chief Elections Officer.
(2) Not later than forty-eight hours before polling day or the first polling day, as the case
may be, in the election concerned, the election agents referred to in subsection (1) may appoint
one or more persons, not exceeding in total the number prescribed in section 21(1), to be their
candidate’s election agents and shall forthwith notify in writing the full names and addresses of
the persons so appointed to the Chief Elections Officer.
Prescribed classes of persons for purposes of
sections 55 (2) (b), 62 (2) (a) and 77 (3) (b) of Act
19.(1) Subject to subsection (2), the following persons are prescribed for the purposes of
section 55(2)(b) of the Act, section 62(2)(a) of the Act and section 77(3)(b) of the Act as persons
who may not be excluded from any polling station and who are entitled to be present at the
counting of votes and the opening of postal ballot boxes⎯
(a) members of the Electoral Supervisory Commission; and
(b) an election agent of each candidate in the election concerned; and
(c) the chief election agents of each candidate in the case of an election to the office of
President; and
(d) monitors; and
(e) observers.
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