Section 71, The Public Elections Act, 2012

(1) Each political party or independent candidatecontesting the election may appoint two persons (hereinafter referred to as “polling agents”) to attend at each polling station within the electoral area, for the purpose of– (a) detecting personation and making representations to the Presiding Officer under paragraph (c) of section 74 and subsection (1) of section 79; and (b) generally for the purpose of 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 three days before the day appointed for the election and before four o’clock in the afternoon of that day, and the District Returning Officer shall inform the Presiding Officer accordingly. (3) If 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. 34 35 Polling agents. (4) No polling agent shall 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 the 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 the identification as is determined by the Electoral Commission.