The Chief Electoral Officer wishes to stress that, with a view to conducting impartial and objective elections, all appropriate measures are being taken to ensure the secrecy of the voters' vote.
Voters must check and make sure that the ballot paper given to them at the polling station to vote bears the official stamp on its outer part, otherwise the ballot paper is invalid.
The voter, after taking a ballot paper, will enter the polling booth to exercise his/her right to vote. On the basis of the measures provided for in the health protocol governing the voting process, the voting booths will not be curtained and will be positioned in such a way as to ensure the secrecy of the vote and to avoid any possibility of voters being influenced by any person.
Therefore, voters should be assured that under no circumstances can their identity be ascertained nor is it possible for their vote to be ascertained afterwards by any person.
It is stressed that the administrative and legislative arrangements are such as to ensure complete secrecy of the vote of voters, especially of sensitive groups of the population, such as those who are incarcerated and imprisoned.
It may be recalled in this regard that the ballot papers for the Presidential Elections are printed on white security paper for the whole of Cyprus.
(EFYs/NG)
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