86Scrutiny of votes at close of poll

86 Scrutiny of votes at close of poll

86 Scrutiny of votes at close of poll

At the close of the poll, a deputy electoral officer must, in the presence of any scrutineers who choose to be present, but no others—

(a) unseal the ballot-boxes containing ballot-papers of electors voting at the polling place, and

(b) remove those ballot-papers from the ballot-boxes, and

(c) examine each ballot-paper and reject those which are informal, and

(d) proceed to count the votes and ascertain the number of first preference votes recorded for each candidate.