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60.   Mode of taking ballot in special cases

Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

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60.   Mode of taking ballot in special cases

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    (1)   Subject to this Act as to proof of qualification as an elector and as to the administration of oaths, if a person representing himself or herself to be a particular elector applies for a ballot paper after another person has voted as such elector, he or she shall be entitled to receive a ballot paper and to vote after taking the oath of identity, in the form set out as Form 16 in Schedule 3, and otherwise establishing his or her identity to the satisfaction of the presiding officer.

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    (2)   In such case, the presiding officer shall put on the ballot paper his or her initials together with a number corresponding to the registration number on the official list of electors allotted to the voter and entered in the poll book opposite the name of such voter, and the poll clerk shall enter in the poll book—

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      (a)     the name of such voter;

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      (b)     a note of his or her having voted on a second ballot paper issued under the same name;

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      (c)     the fact of the oath of identity having been required and taken, and the fact of any other oaths being so required or taken; and

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      (d)     any objections made on behalf of any and of which of the candidates.

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    (3)   The presiding officer, on the application of any elector who is incapacitated, from any physical cause other than blindness, from voting in the manner provided by this Act, shall require the elector making such application to make oath in the form set out as Form 17 in Schedule 3 of his or her incapacity to vote without assistance, and shall thereafter assist such elector by marking his or her ballot paper in the manner directed by such elector in the presence of the poll clerk and of the sworn agents of the candidates and of no other person, and shall place such ballot in the ballot box.

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    (4)   The presiding officer shall either deal with a blind elector in the same manner as with an otherwise incapacitated elector, or, at the request of any blind elector who has taken the oath in the form set out as Form 18 in Schedule 3, and is accompanied by a friend who is an elector in the polling division, shall permit such friend to accompany the blind elector into the voting compartment and mark the elector's ballot paper for him or her. A person shall not at any election be allowed to act as the friend of more than one blind elector.

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    (5)   Any friend who is permitted to mark the ballot paper of a blind elector as aforesaid shall first be required to take an oath in the form set out as Form 19 in Schedule 3.

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    (6)   Whenever any elector has had his or her ballot paper marked as provided in subsection (3) or (4), the poll clerk shall enter in the poll book opposite the elector's name, in addition to any other requisite entry, the reason why such ballot paper was so marked.

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