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20(1)The presiding officer, on the application—
(a)of an elector who is incapacitated by blindness or other physical cause from voting in manner directed by this Schedule; or
(b)if the poll is taken on a Saturday, of an elector who declares that he is a Jew and objects on religious grounds to vote in manner directed by this Schedule; or
(c)of an elector who makes a declaration that he is unable to read (in this Schedule referred to as " the declaration of inability to read ");
shall in the presence of the polling agents cause the vote of the elector to be marked on a ballot paper in manner directed by the elector and the ballot paper to be placed in the ballot box.
(2)The name and number on the register of electors of every elector whose vote is marked in pursuance of this paragraph and the reason why it is so marked shall be entered on a list (in this Schedule called " the list of votes marked by the presiding officer ").
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