The returning officers wishes to advise all candidates who have appointed agents to make them aware as to which polling stations they are assigned to.  Agents will only be sworn at their assigned stations where their identification badges have been delivered to.  Due to the large numbers of agents appointed, returning officers are advising that agents be at their respective polling stations by no later than 6:00 A.M. to be sworn.

Candidates must also ensure that their elections agents be sworn before the polls open, otherwise they will not be allowed to enter any polling or counting stations.  Elections agents are separate from polling and counting agents.  Candidates must advise the Elections office by 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday 21^st May as to which polling stations their elections agents will be attending to be sworn as their identification badges will be sent to those stations for collection.

 Elections Office staff have had to work for an inordinate period over the past week and throughout the weekend in order to bring some semblance of order to the many appointment of agents applications, many of which were incomplete.  Returning officers urged candidates from Nomination Day to appoint their agents early in order to avoid just such a situation arising.  It should be noted that any agent appointed who has completed an application for a postal ballot or mobile voting on behalf of an elector or witnessed an electors signature on such forms is guilty of an offence.

This also applies to candidates.  It should be further noted that any candidate or agent who witnessed the declaration of identity for an elector who has voted by postal ballot is guilty of an offence and the ballot of the elector is rejected.  This is another reason why returning officers and the Elections Office urged candidates to appoint agents early.