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Section 80, The Public Elections Act, 2012

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(1) The Presiding Officer shall keep order in the pollingstation. (2) If a person misconducts himself in a polling station or fails to obey a lawful order of the Presiding Officer, the person may, on the order of the Presiding Officer, be removed from the polling station by a constable, or by any other person authorised in writing by the Presiding Officer in that behalf; and the person so removed shall not, without the permission of the Presiding Officer, again enter the polling station during the day of the election. (3) A person so removed may be charged with the commission of an offence. (4) Subsection (2) shall not be used so as to prevent a person who is otherwise entitled to vote at a polling station from having an opportunity to vote.

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