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| (1) The presiding officer, or any person authorized by the presiding officer, may, if he thinks fit on the application of any voter, explain to the voter, within sight and hearing of the polling agents, if present, the method of voting specified in the directions given for the guidance of voters in the Third Schedule to this Act, but in so doing he shall carefully abstain from any action which might be construed by the voter as advice or a direction to vote for any particular recognized political party or independent group. |
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| (2) The presiding officer, on the application of any voter who is incapacitated by blindness or other physical cause from voting in accordance with the directions given for the guidance of voters in the Third Schedule to this Act shall, in the presence of another member of his polling staff, mark the ballot paper of such voter in the manner directed by the voter and shall cause such ballot paper to be placed in the ballot box. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts