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Supplementary provisions if poll abandoned and restarted

Presidential Elections (Crisis Management) Regulations 2023

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—(1) This regulation applies if the poll at a polling station is abandoned and restarted under regulation 12.(2) The presiding officer must announce the abandonment and restarting of the poll to persons present at the affected polling station.(3) The delivery of ballot papers to voters must stop immediately.(4) The presiding officer must secure the ballot boxes for the affected polling station without opening them by sealing each ballot box with —(a)the seal of the presiding officer; and(b)the seals of the candidates and their polling agents who are in attendance and wish to affix their seals,in a way that the ballot box cannot be opened and nothing can be inserted therein without breaking the seals.(5) The presiding officer must secure the voting material for the affected polling station in the presence of the candidates and their polling agents who are in attendance by —(a)making up the voting material into separate packets; and(b)sealing each packet with —(i)the seal of the Returning Officer; and(ii)the seals of the candidates and their polling agents who wish to affix their seals.(6) The presiding officer must deliver the secured ballot boxes and secured voting material to the Returning Officer.(7) The Returning Officer must —(a)hold the secured ballot boxes and secured voting material in safe custody for 6 months; and(b)destroy the secured ballot boxes and secured voting material at the end of those 6 months unless the President or Election Judge otherwise orders.(8) Paragraphs (4), (5), (6) and (7) do not apply if it is impossible or impracticable in the circumstances to secure the ballot boxes and voting material.(9) The restarted poll must be conducted as nearly as possible in accordance with the Act.(10) A person may vote at the restarted poll only if he or she is —(a)a registered elector; and(b)entitled to vote at the affected polling station.(11) Until the restarted poll is closed, votes must not be counted at —(a)the counting place specified in respect of the affected polling station (whether or not the votes are cast at the affected polling station or elsewhere); and(b)all other counting places located at the same premises.(12) The Returning Officer must specify, by notification in the Gazette, a date for counting votes at the counting places mentioned in paragraph (11).

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