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Section 67, The Public Elections Act, 2022

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(1) In conducting an election under this Act, the Chairmanof the Electoral Commission shall be the National Returning Officer. (2) The Electoral Commission shall appoint - (a) a Regional Returning Officer for each electoral region; (b) a District Returning Officer for each electoral district; and (c) such number of Assistant Returning Officers as may be required. (b) generally drawing the attention of the Presiding Officer to irregularities in the procedure at a polling station. (2) Notice in writing of the appointment, stating the names and addresses of the Polling Agents, together with the polling stations to which they have been assigned, shall be given by each political party or independent candidate, as the case may be, to the District Returning Officer not later than 3 days before the day appointed for the election and before 4 O'clock in the afternoon of that day and the District Returning Officer shall inform the Presiding Officer accordingly. (3) Where a Polling Agent dies or becomes incapable of acting as such, the political party or independent candidate concerned may appoint another Polling Agent in his place and shall give to the Presiding Officer due notice in writing of the name and address of the Polling Agent so appointed. (4) A Polling Agent shall not be admitted into a polling station if notice of his appointment has not been given to the Presiding (5) A Polling Agent admitted to a polling station shall not- (a) interfere with the voting at that station, except as provided in this Act; (b) do any form of canvassing at the polling station or display anything which indicates that he is a representative of a particular political party or candidate and the Polling Agent shall be obliged to display his identification card provided to him by the Electoral Commission.

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