(1) The poll shall be taken in each polling station by secret ballot in accordance with this Act.
(2) The ballot paper of each voter shall be a printed paper on which coloured passport sized photograph, the names, addresses and occupations of the candidates alphabetically arranged in the order of their surnames and numbered accordingly shall be printed exactly as they are set out in their respective nomination papers. Opposite the name of each candidate there shall be a prescribed symbol. The ballot paper shall have a counterfoil and a stub, and there shall be a line of perforation between the ballot paper and the counterfoil and between the counterfoil and the stub, the whole as in the form set out as Form 12 in Schedule 3. (Amended by Act 13 of 2016)
(3) The ballot papers shall be numbered on the top of the stub and the counterfoil, the same number being printed or written on the stub as on the counterfoil. The ballot papers shall be bound or stitched in books containing 10, 25, 50 or 100 ballots.
(4) The symbols to be used by a political party or candidate at an election shall be one of the symbols shown in Schedule 4.
(5) Where a political party has in the preceding election used a particular symbol the Chief Elections Officer shall, at the request in writing of the secretary of such political party, assign the same symbol to that party.
(6) This section applies to the taking of an advance poll at an advance polling station. (Inserted by Act 13 of 2016)