(10)On receipt of any notice of amendment pursuant to subsection (9), the Elections
Commission shall forthwith and before elections day give public notice of the
amendment in such manner as it may in all the circumstances deem the most
practicable and with effect from the time when such notice is given the new
Presidential candidate specified in the notice shall be the Presidential candidate
designated by that list.
87. (1)Where a returning officer is required to have a final count of the votes cast for all,
or some, of the polling places, he shall in the presence of such of the persons entitled
under section 86(1) to be present as attend (a) open each ballot box;
(b) take out the ballot papers;
(c) count and record the number of ballot papers taken from each ballot box;
(d) [Repealed by Act No. 30 of 1990].
(e) count the votes recorded for each list of candidates.
(2) In counting the votes the returning officer shall, subject to subsection (3), reject as
invalid and not count any ballot paper (a) which does not bear the official mark;
(b) which has not been marked for any list of candidates or is void for uncertainty;
(c) on which votes have been given for more than one list of candidates;
(d) on which there is any writing or mark by which the elector can be identified.
(3) A ballot paper on which the vote is marked(a) elsewhere than in the proper place;
(b) otherwise than by means of a cross;