sec.28Making a declaration vote at a polling booth

### sec.28 Making a declaration vote at a polling booth An elector who may or must make a declaration vote may enter a polling booth during voting hours and request a ballot paper for an electoral district and declaration envelope from an issuing officer. The issuing officer must comply with the request, unless the issuing officer is satisfied that the elector may make an ordinary vote for the elector’s electoral district at the polling booth. The issuing officer must keep a record of all persons to whom the officer gives a ballot paper and declaration envelope under this section. The issuing officer must, if a scrutineer requests it, record on the declaration envelope an objection by the scrutineer to the right of the person to vote. On being given the ballot paper and declaration envelope, the elector must, without delay— sign the appropriate declaration on the declaration envelope before the issuing officer and have the officer sign the envelope as witness; and go alone to an unoccupied voting compartment in the polling booth; and there, in private, mark a vote on the ballot paper in accordance with section 33 ; and place the ballot paper in the envelope, seal the envelope and put it in a ballot box in the polling booth; and leave the polling booth. Sections 23 and 24 apply to the making of a vote under this section in the same way, with any necessary changes, as they apply to the making of a vote under section 22 . s 28 amd 2019 No. 31 s 92 (sec.28-ssec.1) An elector who may or must make a declaration vote may enter a polling booth during voting hours and request a ballot paper for an electoral district and declaration envelope from an issuing officer. (sec.28-ssec.2) The issuing officer must comply with the request, unless the issuing officer is satisfied that the elector may make an ordinary vote for the elector’s electoral district at the polling booth. (sec.28-ssec.3) The issuing officer must keep a record of all persons to whom the officer gives a ballot paper and declaration envelope under this section. (sec.28-ssec.4) The issuing officer must, if a scrutineer requests it, record on the declaration envelope an objection by the scrutineer to the right of the person to vote. (sec.28-ssec.5) On being given the ballot paper and declaration envelope, the elector must, without delay— sign the appropriate declaration on the declaration envelope before the issuing officer and have the officer sign the envelope as witness; and go alone to an unoccupied voting compartment in the polling booth; and there, in private, mark a vote on the ballot paper in accordance with section 33 ; and place the ballot paper in the envelope, seal the envelope and put it in a ballot box in the polling booth; and leave the polling booth. (sec.28-ssec.6) Sections 23 and 24 apply to the making of a vote under this section in the same way, with any necessary changes, as they apply to the making of a vote under section 22 . - (a) sign the appropriate declaration on the declaration envelope before the issuing officer and have the officer sign the envelope as witness; and - (b) go alone to an unoccupied voting compartment in the polling booth; and - (c) there, in private, mark a vote on the ballot paper in accordance with section 33 ; and - (d) place the ballot paper in the envelope, seal the envelope and put it in a ballot box in the polling booth; and - (e) leave the polling booth.