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Local Government: Municipal Electoral Act, 2000 (Act No. 27 of 2000)

Chapter 5 : Voting

54. Voting procedure for mobile voting stations

 

(1) If the Commission decides to use only a mobile voting station for the election in any voting district, the voting procedures set out in this Chapter, adjusted as may contextually be necessary, must be applied.

 

(2) Voting at a mobile voting station at a particular location must continue at that location until every voter has voted who—
(a) is entitled to vote in the voting district; and
(b) had reported for voting at that location of the mobile voting station before the stopping time at that location expired.

 

(3) If a voting station and a mobile voting station are used in a voting district, the voting and counting procedures set out in this Chapter and Chapter 6 must be applied, adjusted as follows:
(a) The mobile voting station must be managed as if it is an integral part of the voting station;
(b) the voting material necessary for the election at the mobile voting station, including a certified voters' roll for the voting district concerned, must be supplied to the presiding officer of the voting station as an integral part of that voting station’s material and that presiding officer, in turn, must supply the presiding officer of the mobile voting station with the necessary voting material and obtain a receipt from that officer;
(c) the presiding officer of the mobile voting station must deliver to the counting officer of the voting station the items mentioned in section 53;
(d) the counting officer of the voting station must open all the ballot boxes used in the voting station and in the mobile voting station, mix the ballot papers from all the boxes and then proceed with the sorting of ballot papers, the counting of the votes and the determination of results of the count for the voting station.

 

 


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