ELECTORAL ACT 2002 - SECT 93 How votes to be marked by elector in Assembly election

ELECTORAL ACT 2002 - SECT 93

S. 93(1) amended by No. 2/2003 s. 35(2).

    (1)     After receiving a ballot-paper in accordance with Schedule 2, an elector must mark the elector's vote on the ballot-paper in accordance with this section.

    (2)     An elector must mark the elector's vote on the ballot-paper by placing—

        (a)     the number 1 opposite the name of the candidate for whom the elector votes as first preference; and

        (b)     contingent votes for all the remaining candidates by placing numbers 2, 3, 4 (and so on as the case requires) opposite their names so as to indicate by an unbroken numerical sequence the order of preference.

    (3)     If there are only 2 candidates, the requirements of subsection (1) are sufficiently complied with in the case of any ballot-paper marked with the number 1 opposite the name of only one candidate to indicate the elector's first preference.

    (4)     If there are more than 2 candidates, the requirements of subsection (1) are sufficiently complied with in the case of any ballot-paper marked with the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 (and so on as the case requires) opposite the names of all the candidates on the ballot-paper except one.

    (5)     For the purposes of subsection (4), the elector is to be taken to have indicated the order of preference for all the candidates and to have given the last contingent vote to the candidate opposite whose name no number is placed.

    (6)     Subject to sections 108 to 110, an elector must, after marking the elector's vote on the ballot-paper, deposit it in the ballot-box.

S. 93A inserted by No. 2/2003 s. 36.