CO129-609-3 Future policy- draft Municipal Council Ordinance 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1947 — Page 109

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3rd Sched. (Part III)

(d) a mark shall be placed in the register against

the number of the elector to denote that he has

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received a ballot paper, but without showing the

particular ballot paper which he has received.

19. 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 his vote, and shall then show to the

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.

The elector shall vote without undue delay, and shall leave

the polling station as soon as he has put his ballot paper

into the ballot box.

of

20.- (1) The presiding officer, on the application

(a) an elector who is incapacitated by blindness or

other physical cause from voting in manner

directed by this Schedule; or

(b) if the poll is taken on a Saturday, of an

elector who declares that he is a Jew, and

objects on religious grounds to vote in manner

directed by this Schedule;

shall, in the presence of the polling agents, cause the vote

of the elector to be marked on a ballot paper in 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

paragraph, and the reason why it is so marked, shall be

entered on a list (in this Schedule called "the list of

votes marked by the presiding officer").

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