European Parliamentary Elections (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2004

Votes marked by presiding officer

38.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, the presiding officer, on the application of a voter—

(a) who is incapacitated by blindness or other physical cause from voting in manner directed by these rules, or

(b) who declares orally that he is unable to read,

shall, in the presence of the polling agents, cause the voter’s ballot paper to be marked in manner directed by the voter, and the ballot paper to be placed in the ballot box.

(2) Paragraphs (2) to (7) of rule 37 shall apply in the case of a voter who applies under paragraph (1) above as they apply in the case of a voter who applies under rule 37(1), but reading references to delivering a ballot paper to a voter as references to causing a voter’s ballot paper to be marked.

(3) The name and number on the register of electors of every voter whose ballot paper is marked in pursuance of this rule, and the reason why it is so marked, shall be entered on a list (in these rules called “the list of ballot papers marked by the presiding officer”).

• In the case of a person voting as proxy for an elector, the number to be entered together with the voter’s name shall be the elector’s number.