Section 79, The Public Elections Act, 2022

(1) A candidate or, as the case may be, a political partycontesting the election shall appoint one person, referred to as the "Counting Agent", for each polling station to attend at the counting of the votes. (2) A Polling Agent appointed under section 70 shall be deemed to be the Counting Agent. (3) A Presiding Officer may refuse to admit a person purporting to be a Counting Agent to the place where the votes are counted in respect of whom the notice referred to in subsection (2) of section 70 has not been given. (4) Where a Counting Agent dies or becomes incapable of acting as such, the candidate or political party concerned shall appoint another Counting Agent in his place and shall immediately give to the District Returning Officer notice in writing of the name and address of the Counting Agent so appointed. agents. 85. (1) A Counting Officer may, where violence occurs during the counting of votes in a polling station which significantly disrupts the counting process, cancel the votes in that polling station and the Electoral Commission shall conduct another election if the outcome of votes in the affected polling station will affect the outcome of the entire result (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), the Electoral Commission may, if satisfied that the result of the election will not be affected by voting in the polling station where the election result is nullified, direct that a return of the election be made. 86. The decision of a Counting Officer on a question arising in respect of a ballot paper shall be final and subject to review only on an election petition questioning the election. 87. (1) A Counting Agent may, if present when the counting or a re-counting of the votes is completed, require the Counting Officer to have the votes recounted or recounted again, but the Counting Officer may refuse to do so if, in his opinion, the request is unreasonable. (2) A step shall not be taken on the completion of the counting or a re-counting of votes until the Counting Agents present at the completion of the counting have been given a reasonable opportunity to exercise the right conferred by this section. 88. (1) The Counting Officer shall, upon the conclusion of the counting of votes, seal in separate packets the ballot papers counted and those rejected, the ballot papers for each constituency candidate or candidate in any other election held the same day, being kept separate from those of any other candidate; and each packet shall be endorsed on the outside by the Counting Officer with the name of the constituency candidate or other candidate, or as the case may be, with the name of the candidate in any other election held the same day for whom the votes represented by the ballot papers were cast. Officer's decision to be final. Re-count. Officer's duties at conclusion of counting. Cancellation due to violence.