Plurality of registration or voting

(1) No person shall seek registration or be entitled to have his name entered or retained in more than one register or more than once in the same register. (2) No person may– (a) at a general election, vote as an elector in more than one electoral division; (b) at any election, vote as an elector more than once in the same electoral division; (c) at any election, vote without first producing the original identification card that had been issued to him or proving to the satisfaction of the presiding officer that although he has been registered he has not been issued with an identification card or that the identification card issued to him has been lost or destroyed and that his identity can be established from the duplicate identification card if kept by the presiding officer, Provided that the presiding officer shallREVISED EDITION 2018 16 (i) state to the candidates or their agents then present in the polling station his reasons for permitting an elector to vote without first providing his original (ii) record his reasons and sign the record so made; (iii) maintain a list of the names and registration numbers of voters voting without producing their original identification cards showing the number of the ballot paper issued to each of them; (d) at any election, vote without having been marked with the indelible ink provided for that purpose; (e) at any election, vote without answering the questions which may be put to voters if asked of him by the presiding officer. (3) If any person at an election votes otherwise than as a proxy in more than one electoral division, or more than once in the same electoral division or applies for another ballot paper or ballot papers for the purpose of so voting commits an offence. (4) The provisions of paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (d) of sub- section (2) shall not apply to a person voting as proxy. every fifteen years.