Special voting in the 2024 General Election takes place today in all 328 special polling centres across the country.
In all, about 131,478 voters on the voting list are expected to cast their votes from 7am till 5pm.
The Special Voting is meant for members of the security agencies, the media and election officials who have been assigned duties on Election Day, who applied to the Commission and were put on the special voting list, to enable them to cast their ballots on a Special Voting Day which is today December 2, 2024.
Any voter whose name is on the special voting list and is unable to vote today cannot vote on December 7, because the name has already been transferred as such will be absent on the voters list at the previous Polling Station where they registered to vote.
All ballot boxes shall be properly sealed and kept in a secured room at a Police Station within the constituency, returning officers shall ensure that presiding officers do notcount ballots cast on the Special Voting Day.
The Public should ignore any publication on Special Voting Day that would suggest that voters at any Special Voting Centre voted for any particular candidate.
For emphasis, ballots cast on Special Voting Day, December 2, 2024 shall not be counted at any of the 328 Special Voting Centres until Election Day, December 7, 2024.
Special Voting ballots will be counted at the Constituency Collation Centre after close of poll on Election Day, December 7, 2024.
The returning officer at the constituency collation centre shall record the results of the Special Voting ballots separately on both the Presidential and Parliamentary Election Results Collation Forms.
The results will then be added to the results from all the Polling Stations before declaring the Constituency results.
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