Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsTendered votes
| 45. If a person representing himself to be a particular elector named in the register applies for a ballot paper after another person has voted as such elector, the applicant shall on making and subscribing a declaration, which shall be exempt from stamp duty and which shall be substantially in form I set out in the First Schedule to this Act, be entitled to receive a ballot paper and to vote in the same manner as any other voter, but the ballot paper, in this Act called a " tendered ballot paper ", shall be of a colour different from the other ballot papers, and, before being placed in the ballot box, shall be endorsed by the presiding officer with the name of the voter and his number in the register, and that number shall be entered on a list, in this Act called the " tendered votes list", which shall be substantially in form J set out in the First Schedule to this Act. Tendered ballot papers shall be dealt with in the manner hereinafter provided. |