How to Vote

Right to vote

Every person registered as a voter in an electoral area is entitled to vote, in accordance with the Act, at an election or at a referendum.

Go to the polling station in the electoral area where you are registered to vote
When you enter the polling Station, you will be guided straight to the Assistant Electoral Officer (AEO).
The AEO will check if you have not voted already by verifying if there is no indelible ink on your left thumb nail and/or invisible ink on your forefinger.
You will then identify yourself to the AEO by calling your name in such a tone for the election personnel, candidates, polling agents to hear and produce your National Identity Card or any other I.D. to the AEO.
When your name has been found on the Electoral Register, the AEO will call out the page number, the serial number and your particulars/polling agents to hear.
A second AEO will then put indelible marking on the base of your fingernail or left thumb, invisible ink on the left forefinger and perforate/stamp a ballot paper and hand this over to you and advise you to and advise you to proceed to any vacant polling booth.
In the polling booth you will make a mark, with the felt-marker, in the box provided on the ballot paper, against the name of the Presidential candidate of your choice or National assembly candidates.
You will then fold the ballot paper conveniently so as not to reveal your choice and then move out of the polling booth.
You will then be directed towards the ballots box in which you will drop your ballot paper where all can see and leave the polling station