Schedule 2
(Section 53)
POLICE ELECTORS, CORRECTIONAL FACILITY ELECTORS OR FIRE SERVICE ELECTORS
1. The Chief Elections Officer shall supply to the Commissioner of Police, Director of Correctional Services or Chief Fire Officer so many copies as he or she thinks necessary of each Register of Police electors, correctional facility electors or fire service electors. (Amended by Act 13 of 2016)
2. So soon as may be after the ballot papers are printed, the Chief Elections Officer shall supply to the Commissioner of Police, Director of Correctional Services or Chief Fire Officer a sufficient number of such ballot papers to enable every elector whose name appears upon any Register of Police electors, correctional facility electors or fire service electors to vote at the election of a member for the electoral district to which such Register of Police electors, correctional facility electors or fire service electors relates if such elector is in Saint Lucia upon the day next but 2 before polling day. (Amended by Act 13 of 2016)
3. When the Chief Elections Officer supplies any ballot papers to the Commissioner of Police, Director of Correctional Services or Chief Fire Officer he or she shall also supply an equal number of envelopes addressed to the returning officer for the electoral district to which the ballot paper relate and bearing thereon the words “Police Elector, correctional facility elector or fire service elector”. (Amended by Act 13 of 2016)
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(a) The Commissioner of Police, Director of Correctional Services or Chief Fire Officer shall appoint so many officers (in this Schedule referred to as “police electoral officers, correctional facility electoral officers or fire service electoral officers”) for such police stations as he or she may think necessary to ensure that all police electors, correctional facility electors or fire service electors who may be in Saint Lucia on the day referred to in Rule 2 of this Schedule shall have the opportunity of voting. (Amended by Act 13 of 2016)
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(b) He or she shall take the oath similar to the oath of presiding officers as set out in Form 4 in Schedule 3.
5. Every police electoral officer, correctional facility electoral officer or fire service electoral officer shall be supplied with a copy of the Register of Police electors, correctional facility electors or fire service electors for each electoral district and with such ballot papers and such envelopes addressed to the returning officer for each electoral district as may be necessary to enable every elector who is entitled to vote in accordance with this Schedule and who is attached to or stationed at a police station within the unit or area in respect of which the police electoral officer, correctional facility electoral officer or fire service electoral officer is appointed so to vote. (Amended by Act 13 of 2016)
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(1) On the day next but 2 before polling day, every police electoral officer, correctional facility electoral officer or fire service electoral officer at the police station to which he or she is appointed on application between the hours of 6:30 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. by any elector whose name appears upon the Register of Police electors, correctional facility electors or fire service electors and who is attached to or stationed at a police station within the unit or area for which the police electoral officer, correctional facility electoral officer or fire service electoral officer was appointed, shall—
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(a) select from the ballot papers and envelopes supplied to him or her a ballot paper and an envelope appropriate to the electoral district from the Register of police electors, correctional facility electors or fire service electors in which appears the name of the applicant; (Amended by Act 13 of 2016)
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(b) detach the ballot paper so selected from its counterfoil;
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(c) hand the ballot paper and the envelope to the applicant;
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(d) write against the name of the applicant upon the Register of Police electors, correctional facility electors or fire service electors the word “voted”. (Amended by Act 13 of 2016)
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(Amended by Act 13 of 2016)
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(2) Every candidate for the electoral district in which the police station referred to in subparagraph (1) is situated may appoint an agent to be present thereat and such agent shall be entitled to witness the taking of the poll.
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(1) Upon receiving any ballot paper in accordance with Rule 6 of this Schedule, the applicant for such ballot shall within the precincts of the police station—
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(a) mark a cross with a black lead pencil or voting stamp approved by the Commission against the name of the candidate for whom he or she desires to vote; (Amended by Act 13 of 2016)
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(b) place the ballot paper in the envelope delivered to him or her;
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(c) securely fasten the flap of such envelope;
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(d) place such envelope in the ballot box.
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(2) An elector who votes in accordance with paragraph (1) of this rule shall not permit the police electoral officer, correctional facility electoral officer or fire service electoral officer or any other person to see for whom he or she votes. (Amended by Act 13 of 2016)
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(3) At the conclusion of the poll the police electoral officer, correctional facility electoral officer or fire service electoral officer shall place in the ballot box all the counterfoils relating to ballot papers issued by him or her and all Registers of police electors, correctional facility electors or fire service electors marked by him or her in accordance with rule 6(d) of this Schedule. (Amended by Act 13 of 2016)
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(4) The ballot box shall then be locked and sealed with the seal of the police electoral officer, correctional facility electoral officer or fire service electoral officer and the key put in the envelope provided by the Chief Elections Officer and the envelope shall be sealed by him or her. When this has been done every police electoral officer, correctional facility electoral officer or fire service electoral officer shall on the same day deliver personally to the Chief Elections Officer the ballot box for the unit area in respect of which he or she was appointed police electoral officer, correctional facility electoral officer or fire service electoral officer. (Amended by Act 13 of 2016)
8. On the day next but one before polling day every police electoral officer, correctional facility electoral officer or fire service electoral officer shall deliver personally to the Chief Elections Officer the ballot box for the unit or area in respect of which he or she was appointed police electoral officer, correctional facility electoral officer or fire service electoral officer. (Amended by Act 13 of 2016)
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(1) The Chief Elections Officer shall open the ballot boxes referred to in this Schedule and shall make up all the envelopes contained in any such ballot boxes addressed to the returning officer for any one electoral district into a parcel.
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(2) The Chief Elections Officer shall place in each parcel made up in accordance with paragraph (1) of this rule all the counterfoils relating to the ballot papers contained in such parcel and all the Registers of police electors, correctional facility electors or fire service electors contained in such ballot boxes relating to the electoral district to which the parcel relates. (Amended by Act 13 of 2016)
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(3) The Chief Elections Officer shall not open any envelope contained in any ballot box.
10. Upon polling day the Chief Elections Officer shall cause to be delivered to the returning officer for each electoral district the parcel referred to in rule 9 of this Schedule relating to such electoral district.
11. Upon receipt of the parcel referred to in rule 9 of this Schedule the returning officer shall proceed to the nearest polling station and there, in full view of the presiding officer and of such of the candidates or of their agents as may be present, open the parcel and remove therefrom the envelopes and remove from such envelopes the ballot papers. He or she shall then count the ballot papers and counterfoils without permitting any person to see for whom any such ballot papers have been marked. The returning officer shall then place all such ballot papers in the ballot box and shall make and sign a note upon the statement of the poll of the number of ballot papers so placed by him or her in the ballot box and the number of counterfoils relating to those ballot papers found by him or her in the parcel.