WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1986
+TAKE OFF FEW MINUTES TO VOTE+, PEOPLE URGED
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VOTING IN TOMORROW'S (THURSDAY) URBAN COUNCIL AND REGIONAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS IS A SIMPLE PROCEDURE AND TAKES ONLY A FEW MINUTES, PRINCIPAL ASSISTANT SECRETARY (ELECTORAL SERVICES), MR LEE LAP-SUN SAID TODAY.
THE 302 POLLING STATIONS THROUGHOUT THE 19 DISTRICTS WILL BE OPEN FOR 15 HOURS, STARTING AT 7.30 AM AND CLOSING AT 10.30 PM.
THIRTY-NINE CANDIDATES ARE CONTESTING THE 15 SINGLE-SEAT CONSTITUENCIES IN THE URBAN COUNCIL AND 40 CANDIDATES AND VYING FOR 12 SEATS IN THE REGIONAL COUNCIL. HOWEVER, TWO CANDIDATES, ONE IN EACH OF THE COUNCIL ELECTIONS, HAVE BEEN DECLARED AS ELÉCTED BECAUSE THE IR NOMINATIONS WERE UNCONTESTED.
MORE THAN 1.3 MILLION REGISTERED ELECTORS, EXCLUDING THOSE IN THE TWO UNCONTESTED CONSTITUENCIES, WILL BE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE.
+ELECTORS ARE REMINDED THAT THEY SHOULD VOTE AT THE POLLING STATION INDICATED ON THEIR POLLING CARD, AND THEY SHOULD BRING ALONG THEIR IDENTITY CARD AND POLLING CARD, + MR LEE SAID.
+ALTHOUGH THE POLLING CARD IS NOT ESSENTIAL TO VOTE, IT WOULD SAVE TIME AND AVOID UNNECESSARY DELAYS, HE ADDED.
ELECTORS MAY VOTE FOR NOT MORE THAN ONE CANDIDATE AND SHOULD MARK AN 'X' IN THE SPACE PROVIDED NEXT TO THE CANDIDATE'S NAME ON THE BALLOT PAPER.
+1F AN ELECTOR VOTES FOR MORE THAN ONE CANDIDATE, OR WRITES ANYTHING ON THE BALLOT PAPER BY WHICH HE MAY BE IDENTIFIED, THE BALLOT PAPER WILL BE VOID AND THE VOTE WILL NOT BE COUNTED, SAID MR LEE.
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HE MUST
+ IF AN ELECTOR INADVERTENTLY SPOILS A BALLOT PAPER. REPORT TO THE PRESIDING OFFICER WHO WILL ARRANGE TO GIVE HIM A FRESH BALLOT PAPER, HE SAID.
PRESIDING OFFICERS WILL ASSIST ELECTORS WHO ARE ILLITERATE BLIND OR PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED, AND ALL PRESIDING OFFICERS ARE BOUND BY OATH TO MAINTAIN SECRECY.
VOTING IS BY SECRET BALLOT, AND BY LAW, ELECTORS SHOULD NOT TELL ANYONE FOR WHOM THEY HAVE VOTED, MR LEE SAID.
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