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Regulation Adapting the Canada Elections Act for the Purposes of a Referendum

Part 9

Voting

Voting Opportunities

Manner of voting
  • 127. An elector may vote
    • (a) in person at a polling station on polling day;
    • (b) in person at an advance polling station during the period provided for the advance poll; or
    • (c) by means of a special ballot issued in accordance with Part 11.

Polling Day

Hours

Hours of voting
  • 128. (1) The voting hours on polling day are
    • (a) from 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., if the electoral district is in the Newfoundland, Atlantic or Central time zone;
    • (b) from 9:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., if the electoral district is in the Eastern time zone;
    • (c) from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., if the electoral district is in the Mountain time zone; and
    • (d) from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., if the electoral district is in the Pacific time zone.
Exception — Saskatchewan
  • (2) Despite subsection (1), if polling day is during a time of the year when the rest of the country is observing daylight saving time, the voting hours in Saskatchewan are
    • (a) in the case of an electoral district in the Central time zone, from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.; and
    • (b) in the case of an electoral district in the Mountain time zone, from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Daylight-saving time
  • 129. The Chief Electoral Officer may, if he or she considers it necessary, set the voting hours for the electoral district so that the opening and closing of its polls coincide with the opening and closing of the polls in other electoral districts in the same time zone.
When polls lie in two time zones
  • 130. When more than one local time is observed in an electoral district, the returning officer shall, with the prior approval of the Chief Electoral Officer, determine one local time to be observed for every operation prescribed by this Act or the Referendum Act, and shall publish the hours in the Notice of Referendum referred to in section 62.
Hours for voting
  • 131. If a referendum is held only in one or more provinces in the same time zone, the hours of voting are from 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Time to Employees for Voting

Consecutive hours for voting
  • 132. (1) Every employee who is an elector is entitled, during voting hours on polling day, to have three consecutive hours for the purpose of casting his or her vote and, if his or her hours of work do not allow for those three consecutive hours, his or her employer shall allow the time for voting that is necessary to provide those three consecutive hours.
Time at convenience of employer
  • (2) The time that the employer shall allow for voting under subsection (1) is at the convenience of the employer.
Transportation companies
  • (3) This section and section 133 do not apply to an employee of a company that transports goods or passengers by land, air or water who is employed outside his or her polling division in the operation of a means of transportation, if the additional time referred to in subsection (1) cannot be allowed without interfering with the transportation service.
No penalty for absence from work to vote
  • 133. (1) No employer may make a deduction from the pay of an employee, or impose a penalty, for the time that the employer shall allow for voting under subsection 132(1).
Hourly, piece-work or other basis of employment
  • (2) An employer who pays an employee less than the amount that the employee would have earned on polling day, had the employee continued to work during the time referred to in subsection 132(2) that the employer allowed for voting, is deemed to have made a deduction from the pay of the employee, regardless of the basis on which the employee is paid.
Prohibition
  • 134. No employer shall, by intimidation, undue influence or by any other means, interfere with the granting to an elector in their employ of the three consecutive hours for voting, as provided for in section 132.

Proceedings at the Poll

Who may be present at polling station
  • 135. (1) The only persons who may be present at a polling station on polling day are
    • (a) the deputy returning officer and the poll clerk;
    • (b) the returning officer and his or her representatives;
    • (c) not applicable;
    • (d) an agent of each registered referendum committee or a maximum of two witnesses, as the case may be;
    • (e) an elector and a friend or relative who is helping him or her by virtue of subsection 155(1), only for the period necessary to enable the elector to vote; and
    • (f) any observer or member of the Chief Electoral Officer's staff whom he or she authorizes to be present.
Delivery of agent's or witness's authorization
  • (2) When an agent of a registered referendum committee or a witness is admitted to a polling station, his or her written authorization in the prescribed form shall be delivered to the deputy returning officer.
Agent or witness authorized in writing
  • (3) An agent of a registered referendum committee or a witness bearing a written authorization referred to in subsection (2) is deemed to be an agent of that committee or a witness within the meaning of this Act and the Referendum Act and is entitled to represent that committee in preference to, and to the exclusion of, any elector who might otherwise claim the right to represent that committee.
Oath of secrecy
  • (4) Each agent of a registered referendum committee or witness described in paragraph (1)(d), on being admitted to the polling station, shall take an oath in the prescribed form.
  • 136. (1) Not applicable.
Agents or witnesses may absent themselves from poll
  • (2) The agents of registered referendum committees and witnesses described in paragraph 135(1)(d) may leave a polling station at any time and return at any time before the counting of the votes begins and are not required to produce new written authorizations or to take another oath.
Examination of list of electors and conveying information
  • (3) An agent of a registered referendum committee or a witness may, during voting hours,
    • (a) examine the list of electors, provided that the agent or witness does not delay an elector in casting his or her vote; and
    • (b) convey any information obtained by the examination referred to in paragraph (a) to any agent of the registered referendum committee who is on duty outside the polling station.
Communications device
  • (4) An agent of a registered referendum committee or a witness shall not use a communications device at a polling station during voting hours.
  • 137. (1) Not applicable.
Non-attendance of agents or witnesses
  • (2) The non-attendance of any agent of a registered referendum committee or witness at any time or place authorized by this Act or the Referendum Act does not in any way invalidate any act or thing done during the absence of the representative if the act or thing is otherwise duly done.
Initialling ballots
  • 138. (1) Before a polling station opens on polling day, and in full view of the agents of registered referendum committees or witnesses who are present at the polling station, the deputy returning officer shall initial the back of every ballot, entirely in ink or entirely in black pencil so that when the ballot is folded the initials can be seen. The initials shall be as similar as possible on each ballot.
Ballots not to be detached
  • (2) For the purpose of initialling, the ballots shall not be detached from the books in which they are contained.
Vote not to be delayed
  • (3) The opening of a polling station shall not be delayed for the purpose of initialling the ballots. Ballots that are not initialled when the polling station opens shall be initialled as soon as possible and in all cases before being handed to electors.
Counting of ballots before opening of poll
  • 139. Agents of registered referendum committees or witnesses who are in attendance at least 15 minutes before a polling station opens are entitled to have the ballots intended to be used at the polling station carefully counted in their presence and to inspect the ballots and all other documents relating to the vote.
Examining and sealing ballot box
  • 140. When the polling station opens, the deputy returning officer shall, in full view of the agents of registered referendum committees or witnesses who are present, open the ballot box and ascertain that it is empty, and shall
    • (a) seal the ballot box with the seals provided by the Chief Electoral Officer; and
    • (b) place the ballot box on a table in full view of all present and ensure that the box remains there until the polling station closes.

Admitting Voters

Calling electors
  • 141. Immediately after the ballot box is sealed, the deputy returning officer shall call on the electors to vote.
Electors not to be impeded
  • 142. (1) The deputy returning officer shall ensure that every elector is admitted into the polling station and that the electors are not disturbed when they are in or near the polling station.
One elector at a time
  • (2) A deputy returning officer may, if he or she considers it advisable, direct that not more than one elector for each voting compartment may at any time enter the room where the voting is held.
Elector to declare name, etc.
  • 143. (1) Each elector, on arriving at the polling station, shall give his or her name and address to the deputy returning officer and the poll clerk, and, on request, to an agent of a registered referendum committee or to a witness.
Proof of identity and residence
  • (2) If the poll clerk determines that the elector's name and address appear on the list of electors or that the elector is allowed to vote under section 146, 147, 148 or 149, then, subject to subsection (3), the elector shall provide to the deputy returning officer and the poll clerk the following proof of his or her identity and residence:
    • (a) one piece of identification issued by a Canadian government, whether federal, provincial or local, or an agency of that government, that contains a photograph of the elector and his or her name and address; or
    • (b) two pieces of identification authorized by the Chief Electoral Officer each of which establish the elector's name and at least one of which establishes the elector's address.
Clarification
  • (2.1) For greater certainty, the Chief Electoral Officer may authorize as a piece of identification for the purposes of paragraph (2)(b) any document, regardless of who issued it.
Person registered as an Indian
  • (2.2) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(b), a document issued by the Government of Canada that certifies that a person is registered as an Indian under the Indian Act constitutes an authorized piece of identification.
Oath
  • (3) An elector may instead prove his or her identity and residence by taking the prescribed oath if he or she is accompanied by an elector whose name appears on the list of electors for the same polling division and who
    • (a) provides to the deputy returning officer and the poll clerk the piece or pieces of identification referred to in paragraph (2)(a) or (b), respectively; and
    • (b) vouches for him or her on oath in the prescribed form.
Proof of residence
  • (3.1) If the address contained in the piece or pieces of identification provided under subsection (2) or paragraph (3)(a) does not prove the elector's residence but is consistent with information related to the elector that appears on the list of electors, the elector's residence is deemed to have been proven.
Request to take an oath
  • (3.2) Despite subsection (3.1), a deputy returning officer, poll clerk, agent of a registered referendum committee or witness who has reasonable doubts concerning the residence of an elector referred to in that subsection may request that the elector take the prescribed oath, in which case his or her residence is deemed to have been proven only if he or she takes that oath.
Voting
  • (4) If the deputy returning officer is satisfied that an elector's identity and residence have been proven in accordance with subsection (2) or (3), the elector's name shall be crossed off the list and, subject to section 144, the elector shall be immediately allowed to vote.
Prohibition — vouching for more than one elector
  • (5) No elector shall vouch for more than one elector at a referendum.
Prohibition — vouchee acting as voucher
  • (6) An elector who has been vouched for at a referendum may not vouch for another elector at that referendum.
Publication
  • (7) The Chief Electoral Officer shall publish each year, and within three days after the issue of a writ, in a manner that he or she considers appropriate, a notice setting out the types of identification that are authorized for the purpose of paragraph (2)(b). The first annual notice shall be published no later than six months after the coming into force of this subsection.
Requirement before administering oath
  • 143.1 If a person decides to prove his or her identity and residence by taking the prescribed oath, the person who administers the oath shall, before doing so, orally advise the oath taker of the qualifications for electors and the penalty that may be imposed under this Act on a person who is convicted of voting or attempting to vote at a referendum knowing that he or she is not qualified as an elector.
Proof of qualification as elector
  • 144. A deputy returning officer, poll clerk, agent of a referendum committee or witness who has reasonable doubts concerning whether a person intending to vote is qualified as an elector may request that the person take the prescribed oath, and the person shall not be allowed to vote unless he or she takes that oath.
Proof of identity, etc., or oath not required
  • 144.1 Once an elector has been given a ballot, no person shall require the elector to prove his or her identity and residence in accordance with subsection 143(2) or (3).
  • 145. [Repealed]
Name and address corresponding closely to another
  • 146. If a name and address in the list of electors correspond so closely with the name and address of a person who demands a ballot as to suggest that it is intended to refer to that person, the person shall not be allowed to vote unless he or she takes the prescribed oath.
Person in whose name another has voted
  • 147. If a person asks for a ballot at a polling station after someone else has voted under that person's name, the person shall not be allowed to vote unless he or she takes the prescribed oath.
Name inadvertently crossed off list
  • 148. If an elector claims that his or her name has been crossed off in error from an official list of electors under subsection 176(2) or (3), the elector shall not be allowed to vote unless the returning officer verifies that the elector's name was crossed off in error or the elector takes the oath referred to in section 147.
Failure to prove identity or residence
  • 148.1 (1) An elector who fails to prove his or her identity and residence in accordance with subsection 143(2) or (3) or to take an oath otherwise required by this Act shall not receive a ballot or be allowed to vote.
When elector refuses to take improper oath
  • (2) If an elector refuses to take an oath because he or she is not required to do so under this Act, the elector may appeal to the returning officer. If, after consultation with the deputy returning officer or the poll clerk of the polling station, the returning officer decides that the elector is not required to take the oath, and if the elector is entitled to vote in the polling division, the returning officer shall direct that he or she be allowed to do so.
Elector not allowed to vote
  • 149. An elector whose name does not appear on the official list of electors in his or her polling station shall not be allowed to vote unless
    • (a) the elector gives the deputy returning officer a transfer certificate described in section 158 or 159 and, for a certificate described in subsection 158(2), fulfils the conditions described in subsection 158(3);
    • (b) the deputy returning officer ascertains with the returning officer that the elector is listed on the preliminary list of electors or was registered during the revision period; or
    • (c) the elector gives the deputy returning officer a registration certificate described in subsection 161(4).

Voting Procedure

Delivery of ballot to elector
  • 150. (1) Every elector who is admitted to vote shall be given a ballot by the deputy returning officer.
Instructions to elector on receiving ballot
  • (2) The deputy returning officer shall explain to each elector how to indicate his or her choice and fold the ballot so that its serial number and the initials of the deputy returning officer are visible and shall direct the elector to return the marked and folded ballot.
Manner of voting
  • 151. (1) An elector shall, after receiving a ballot,
    • (a) proceed directly to the voting compartment;
    • (b) mark the ballot with a cross or other mark in the circular space opposite the word "yes" or "no" according to his or her choice;
    • (c) fold the ballot as instructed by the deputy returning officer; and
    • (d) return the ballot to the deputy returning officer.
Return of ballot
  • (2) The deputy returning officer shall, on receiving the ballot from the elector,
    • (a) without unfolding the ballot, verify that it is the same one that was handed to the elector by examining its serial number and the initials on it;
    • (b) remove and destroy the counterfoil in full view of the elector and all other persons present; and
    • (c) return the ballot to the elector to deposit in the ballot box or, at the elector's request, deposit it in the ballot box.
Spoiled ballot
  • 152. (1) If an elector has inadvertently handled a ballot in such a manner that it cannot be used, the elector shall return it to the deputy returning officer who shall mark it as a spoiled ballot, place it in the envelope supplied for the purpose and give the elector another ballot.
Limit
  • (2) An elector shall not be given more than one ballot under subsection (1).
No delay in voting
  • 153. (1) Every elector shall vote without delay and leave the polling station as soon as his or her ballot has been put into the ballot box.
Electors present at close of voting hours allowed to vote
  • (2) An elector who is entitled to vote at a polling station and who is in the polling station or in line at the door at the close of voting hours shall be allowed to vote.

Special Voting Procedures

Assistance by deputy returning officer
  • 154. (1) The deputy returning officer, on request by an elector who is unable to vote in the manner prescribed by this Act because he or she cannot read or has a physical disability, shall assist the elector in the presence of the poll clerk.
Template
  • (2) The deputy returning officer shall, on request, provide a template to an elector who has a visual impairment to assist him or her in marking his or her ballot.
Assistance by friend or related person
  • 155. (1) If an elector requires assistance to vote, a friend, the spouse, the common-law partner or a relative of the elector or a relative of the elector's spouse or common-law partner may accompany the elector into the voting compartment and assist the elector to mark his or her ballot.
Exception
  • (2) No person shall as a friend assist more than one elector for the purpose of marking a ballot.
Oath
  • (3) A person described in subsection (1) who wishes to assist an elector in marking a ballot shall first take an oath, in the prescribed form, that he or she
    • (a) will mark the ballot in the manner directed by the elector;
    • (b) will not disclose the answer to a referendum question for which the elector voted;
    • (c) will not try to influence the elector in choosing an answer to a referendum question; and
    • (d) has not, during the current referendum, assisted another person, as a friend, to mark a ballot.
Prohibition — failure to maintain secrecy
  • (4) No person who assists an elector under this section shall, directly or indirectly, disclose the answer to a referendum question for which the elector voted.
Use of interpreter
  • 156. A deputy returning officer may appoint and swear a language or sign language interpreter to assist the officer in communicating to an elector any information that is necessary to enable him or her to vote.
Elector who is confined to bed
  • 157. (1) At a polling station that has been established in a home for the aged or in a chronic care facility, when the deputy returning officer considers it necessary, the deputy returning officer and the poll clerk shall
    • (a) suspend temporarily the voting in the polling station; and
    • (b) with the approval of the person in charge of the institution, carry the ballot box, ballots and other necessary referendum documents from room to room in the institution to take the votes of electors who are confined to bed and ordinarily resident in the polling division in which the institution is situated.
Procedure for taking the votes
  • (2) When the vote of an elector who is confined to bed is taken, the deputy returning officer shall give the elector the assistance necessary to enable the elector to vote.

Transfer Certificates

  • 158. (1) Not applicable.
Transfer certificate for referendum officer
  • (2) A returning officer or an assistant returning officer shall issue a transfer certificate to any person whose name appears on the official list of electors for a polling station and who has been appointed, after the last day of advance polls, to act as a referendum officer for another polling station.
Condition
  • (3) A transfer certificate issued under subsection (2) authorizes the person to vote at the polling station named in it only if, on polling day, the person performs the duty specified in the certificate at the place mentioned in the certificate.
Transfer certificate for elector whose polling station has moved
  • (4) If an elector's polling station moves to another location after the notice of confirmation of registration has been sent, an elector who attends at the polling station set out in the notice is entitled on request to receive a transfer certificate to vote at that polling station.
Transfer certificate for elector with a disability
  • 159. (1) An elector who is in a wheelchair or who has a physical disability, and who is unable to vote without difficulty in his or her polling division because it does not have a polling station with level access, may apply for a transfer certificate to vote at another polling station with level access in the same electoral district.
Application requirements
  • (2) The application shall be in the prescribed form and shall be personally delivered to the returning officer or assistant returning officer for the elector's electoral district by the elector, his or her friend, spouse, common-law partner or relative, or a relative of his or her spouse or common-law partner.
Issue of transfer certificate to disabled elector
  • (3) The returning officer or assistant returning officer shall issue a transfer certificate in the prescribed form, and hand the certificate to the person who delivered the application to the officer, if the officer is satisfied that
    • (a) the elector's name appears on a list of electors for the electoral district; and
    • (b) the polling station established for the polling division in which the elector resides does not have level access.
Signing, numbering and recording transfer certificate
  • 160. The returning officer or assistant returning officer by whom a transfer certificate is issued shall
    • (a) fill in and sign the certificate and mention on it the date of its issue;
    • (b) consecutively number the certificate in the order of its issue;
    • (c) keep a record of the certificate in the order of its issue on the prescribed form;
    • (d) not issue the certificate in blank; and
    • (e) if possible, send a copy of the certificate to the deputy returning officer for the polling station on whose list of electors the name of the person to whom the certificate has been issued appears.

Polling Day Registration

Registration in person
  • 161. (1) An elector whose name is not on the list of electors may register in person on polling day if the elector
    • (a) provides as proof of his or her identity and residence the piece or pieces of identification referred to in paragraph 143(2)(a) or (b), respectively, which piece or one of which pieces must contain an address that proves his or her residence; or
    • (b) proves his or her identity and residence by taking the prescribed oath, and is accompanied by an elector whose name appears on the list of electors for the same polling division and who
      • (i) provides the piece or pieces of identification referred to in paragraph 143(2)(a) or (b), respectively, which piece or one of which pieces must contain either an address that proves his or her residence or an address that is consistent with information related to him or her that appears on the list of electors, and
      • (ii) vouches for him or her on oath in the prescribed form, which form must include a statement as to the residence of both electors.
Place of registration
  • (2) Where subsection (1) applies, the registration may take place before
    • (a) a registration officer at a registration desk established under subsection 39(1); or
    • (b) a deputy returning officer at a polling station with respect to which the Chief Electoral Officer determines that the officer be authorized to receive registrations.
  • (3) Not applicable.
Registration certificate
  • (4) Where the elector satisfies the requirements of subsection (1), the registration officer or deputy returning officer, as the case may be, shall complete a registration certificate in the prescribed form authorizing the elector to vote and the elector shall sign it.
List deemed to be modified
  • (5) When a registration certificate is given under subsection (4), the list of electors is deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to have been modified in accordance with the certificate.
Prohibition — vouching for more than one elector
  • (6) No elector shall vouch for more than one elector at a referendum.
Prohibition — vouchee acting as voucher
  • (7) An elector who has been vouched for at a referendum may not vouch for another elector at that referendum.
Requirement before administering oath
  • 161.1 If a person decides to prove his or her identity and residence by taking the prescribed oath, the person who administers the oath shall, before doing so, orally advise the oath taker of the qualifications for electors.

Duties of Poll Clerk

Duties of poll clerk
  • 162. Each poll clerk shall
    • (a) make, on the prescribed form, the entries that the deputy returning officer directs under this Act;
    • (b) as soon as the elector's ballot has been deposited in the ballot box, indicate, beside the name of the elector on the list of electors, that the elector has voted;
    • (c) indicate, if applicable, on the prescribed form that the elector has voted under a transfer certificate issued under section 158 or 159 and give the number of the certificate;
    • (d) indicate, if applicable, on the prescribed form that the elector has voted, under paragraph 149(b), without his or her name being on the official list of electors;
    • (e) indicate, if applicable, on the prescribed form that the elector has voted under section 146;
    • (f) indicate, if applicable, on the prescribed form that the elector has taken an oath and the type of oath;
    • (g) indicate, if applicable, on the prescribed form that the elector refused to comply with a legal requirement to provide the piece or pieces of identification referred to in paragraph 143(2)(a) or (b), respectively, or to take an oath;
    • (h) indicate, if applicable, on the prescribed form that the elector has been allowed to vote under subsection 148.1(2);
    • (i) indicate, if applicable, on the prescribed form that an elector has voted in the circumstances described in section 147, that the prescribed oath has been taken or that any other oath that was required to be taken was taken, note any objection that was made on behalf of a registered referendum committee and indicate the committee's name;
      • (i.1) on request, and at intervals of no less than 30 minutes, provide to an agent of a registered referendum committee, on the prescribed form and as directed by the Chief Electoral Officer, the identity of every elector who has exercised his or her right to vote on polling day, excluding that of electors who registered on that day;
      • (i.2) on request, after the close of the advance polling station, provide to an agent of a registered referendum committee, on the prescribed form and as directed by the Chief Electoral Officer, the identity of every elector who has exercised his or her right to vote on that day excluding that of electors who registered on that day; and
    • (j) indicate, if applicable, on the prescribed form, that an elector has voted under a registration certificate issued under subsection 161(4).

Secrecy

Secret vote
  • 163. The vote is secret.
Secrecy during and after poll
  • 164. (1) Every referendum officer, agent of a registered referendum committee, witness or other person present at a polling station or at the counting of the votes shall maintain the secrecy of the vote.
Secrecy at the poll
  • (2) Except as provided by this Act, no elector shall
    • (a) on entering the polling station and before receiving a ballot, openly declare for which answer to a referendum question the elector intends to vote;
    • (b) show his or her ballot, when marked, so as to allow the answer to a referendum question for which the elector has voted to be known; or
    • (c) before leaving the polling station, openly declare for which answer to a referendum question the elector has voted.
Procedure in case of contravention of secrecy
  • (3) It is the duty of each deputy returning officer to draw the attention of any elector to an offence that the elector commits in contravening subsection (2) and to the punishment to which the elector is liable, but the elector shall be allowed to vote in the usual way if he or she has not already done so.

Prohibitions

Prohibition — use of loudspeakers on polling day
  • 165. No person shall use a loudspeaking device within hearing distance of a polling station on polling day for the purpose of promoting or opposing an answer to a referendum question.
Prohibitions — emblems, etc., in polling station
  • 166. (1) No person shall
    • (a) post or display in, or on the exterior surface of, a polling place any referendum literature or other material that could be taken as an indication of support for or opposition to an answer to a referendum question;
    • (b) while in a polling station, wear any emblem, flag, banner or other thing that indicates that the person supports or opposes an answer to a referendum question; and
    • (c) in a polling station or in any place where voting at a referendum is taking place, influence electors to vote or refrain from voting or vote or refrain from voting for a particular answer to a referendum question.
  • (2) Not applicable.
Prohibitions re ballots, etc.
  • 167. (1) No person shall
    • (a) apply for a ballot in a name that is not his or her own;
    • (b) use a forged ballot;
    • (c) knowing that he or she is without authority under this Act to do so, provide a ballot to any person; or
    • (d) knowing that he or she is without authority under this Act to do so, have a ballot in his or her possession.
Other prohibitions
  • (2) No person shall wilfully
    • (a) alter, deface or destroy a ballot or the initials of the deputy returning officer signed on a ballot;
    • (b) put or cause to be put into a ballot box a ballot or other paper otherwise than as provided by this Act;
    • (c) take a ballot out of the polling station; or
    • (d) destroy, take, open or otherwise interfere with a ballot box or book or packet of ballots.
Prohibitions — deputy returning officers
  • (3) No deputy returning officer shall
    • (a) with the intent of causing the reception of a vote that should not have been cast or the non-reception of a vote that should have been cast, put his or her initials on the back of any paper purporting to be or capable of being used as a ballot at a referendum; or
    • (b) place on any ballot any writing, number or mark, with intent that the elector to whom the ballot is to be, or has been, given may be identified.


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