Issue of declaration ballot paper
38 Issue of declaration ballot paper
(1) If a person attends before an authorised officer for a division at a polling place during polling hours and claims to vote at the election for another division, the officer must issue a ballot paper (a declaration ballot paper) to the person for the person's enrolled division if:
(a) the person states the person's full name and, unless the person's address is suppressed, the person's address; and
(b) the officer is satisfied the officer's certified list of voters for all divisions has not been marked to indicate a declaration ballot paper has already been issued to the person; and
the person answers the voter's question in the affirmative.
(2) However, if the officer's certified list of voters has been marked to indicate a declaration ballot paper has already been issued to the person but the person claims not to have voted already at the election, Subdivision 2 applies to the issue of a declaration ballot paper to the person.
(3) The officer must, immediately before issuing the ballot paper to the person:
record the issue on the certified list of voters; and
initial the back of the ballot paper.
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