Marking of ballot papers.
Method of vating.
Recording
of vote of blind elector by presiding offlzer.
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(3) A person arrested under the provisions of this regulation shall be dealt with as a person taken into custody by a police officer for an offence without a warrant.
31. A ballot paper shall be delivered in an elector who applies therefor, and immediately before delivery→→
(a) the ballot paper shall be marked with the official mark,
either embossed or perforated;
(b) the number, name and description of the elector as stated
in the copy of the register shall be called out;
(e) the number of the elector shall be marked on the
counterfoil; and
(d) a line shall be placed in the register against the number of the clector to denote that lie has received a ballot paper, but without showing the particular ballot paper which he has received.
32. The elector, on receiving the ballot paper, shall forthwith proceed into one of the compartments in the polling station and there secretly mark his paper and fold it up so as to conceal Iris vote, and shall then show to the presiding officer or to an assistant presiding officer the back of the paper, so as to disclose the official mark, and put the ballot paper, so folded up, into the ballot box in the presence of the presiding officer or of an assistant presiding officer. The elector shall vote without undue delay, and shall leave the polling station as soon as he has put his ballot papur into the ballot box.
33. (1) The presiding officer, on the application of an elector who is incapacitated by blindness or other physical cause from voting in manner directed by these regulations, shall cause the vote of the elector to be marked on a ballot paper in the manner directed by the elector, and the ballot paper to be placed in the ballot box.
(2) The name and number on the register of electors of every elector whose vote is marked in pursuance of this regulation, and the reason why it is so marked, shall be entered on a list (in these regulations called the list of votes marked by the presiding officer).
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34. (0)
Where an elector who is accompanied by another Recording person makes application to the presiding officer to be allowed on af blind the ground of blindness to vote with the assistance of the person elector by
companion. accompanying him (in these regulations referred to as the com]= panion), the presiding officer shall require the elector to declare orally whether he is so incapacitated by his blindness as to be unable to vote without assistance.
(2) If the presiding officer is satisfed that the elector is so incapacitated and is also satisfied by a written declaration made by the companion that the companion is a qualified person within the meaning of this regulation and has not previously assisted more than one blind person to vote at the election then being held, the presiding officer shall grant the application, and thereupun anything which is by these regulations required to be done to or by the said elector in connexion with the giving of his vote, may be done to, or with the assistance of, the companion as the case may be.
(3) For the purpose of this regulation a person shall be qualified to be a companion if that person is either-
(a) a person who is entitled to vote at the election then being
bek; or
(b) the father, mother, brother, sister, husband, wife, son or daughter, of the blind elector and has attained the age of twenty-one years.
(4) The name and number on the register of electors of every elector whose vote is given in accordance with this regulation and the name and address of the companion shall be entered on a list (in these regulations called the list of blind electors assisted by companions).
35. (0) The declaration made by a companion shall be- (d) in accordance with Form 15 of the Appendix or as near
thereto as circumstances may admit; and
Declaration of com- panion of blind elector.
(D) made before the presiding officer or an assistant presiding Form 15.
officer at the time when the elector applies to vote with the assistance of the companion and shall forthwith be handed to the presiding officer or assistant presiding officer who shall attest and retain it.