Local Government: Municipal Electoral Act, 2000 (Act No. 27 of 2000)RegulationsMunicipal Electoral Regulations, 2000Schedule APart VI-A : Special Votes28D. Counting of Special Votes |
| (1) | During the course of voting day, the ballot box for special votes is opened and each marked envelope is scrutinised and compared with the marked voters' roll and the record of approved applications for special votes. |
| (2) | If no irregularity is detected that renders the special vote unacceptable, the marked envelope is opened, the unmarked envelope inside is removed and is placed unopened in the ordinary ballot box then in use in the voting station. |
| (3) | Once that ballot box is opened for counting, the unmarked envelopes are opened, the ballot papers removed, mixed with the ballot papers from the ballot box and counted together. |
[Regulation 28D inserted by regulation 8 of Government Notice R152 of 2011]