Special Voting on Monday, 2nd December, 2024 – All you need to know

1. Special Voting in the 2024 General Election takes place on Monday, 2^nd December, 2024. Voting will start from 7am till 5pm.
2. Special Voting is meant for members of the security agencies, the media and election officials who have been assigned duties on Election Day, who applied to the Commission and were put on the Special Voting List, to enable them to cast their ballots on a Special Voting Day – 2^nd December, 2024.
3. For the 2024 General Election, there are 328 Special Voting Centres across the country and 131,478 Voters on the Special Voting List.
4. Any Voter who is on the Special Voting List but does not vote on the Special Voting Day cannot vote on 7^th December because he or she will be on the Absent Voters List at the Polling Station where they want to vote.

Custody of Ballot Boxes for Special Voting

5. All ballot boxes shall be properly sealed and kept in a secured room at a Police Station within the constituency.

6. Returning Officers shall ensure that Presiding Officers DO NOT count ballots cast on the Special Voting Day.

7. The Public should ignore any publication on Special Voting Day that would suggest that voters at any Special Voting Centre voted for any particular candidate. For emphasis, ballots cast on Special Voting Day, 2^nd December, 2024 SHALL NOT be counted at any of the 328 Special Voting Centres until Election Day, 7^th December, 2024.

Counting of Special Voting Ballots 

8. Special Voting ballots will be counted at the Constituency Collation Centre after close of poll on Election Day, 7^th December, 2024.

9. The Returning Officer at the Constituency Collation Centre shall record the results of the Special Voting ballots separately on both the Presidential and Parliamentary Election Results Collation Forms.

10. The results will then be added to the results from all the Polling Stations before declaring the Constituency results.