# The Greater London Authority Elections Rules 2007, Paragraph 40: Votes marked by presiding officer


(1) Subject to paragraph (1A), the presiding officer, on the application of a voter—
(a) who is incapacitated by blindness or other disability from voting in the manner directed by these Rules, or
(b) who declares orally that he is unable to read,
must, in the presence of the polling agents, cause the voter's vote to be marked on a ballot paper in the manner directed by the voter, and the ballot paper to be placed in the ballot box.
(1A) Paragraphs (1A) to (1M) of rule 39 apply in the case of a voter who applies under paragraph (1) of this rule as those paragraphs apply in the case of a voter who applies under rule 39(1), but as if—
(a) references to delivering a ballot paper to a voter were to causing a voter’s vote to be marked on a ballot paper, and
(b) in rule 39(1G), the reference to paragraph (1) of rule 39 were to paragraph (1) of this rule.
(2) The name and number on the register of electors of every voter whose vote is marked in pursuance of this rule, and the reason why it is so marked, must be entered on a list (in these Rules called “the list of votes marked by the presiding officer”). In the case of a person voting as proxy for an elector, the number to be entered together with the voter's name must be the elector's number.
(3) In the case of a person in respect of whom a notice has been issued under section 13B(3B) or (3D) of the 1983 Act , paragraph (2) applies as if for “on the register of electors of every voter” there were substituted “relating to every voter in respect of whom a notice has been issued under section 13B(3B) or (3D) of the 1983 Act”.
(4) The same list of votes marked by the presiding officer may be used for the election and each Authority election, and where it is so used, an entry in that list must be taken to mean that the ballot papers were so marked in respect of each Authority election, unless the list identifies the election for which the ballot paper was so marked.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/3541/schedule/2/paragraph/40 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/greater-london-authority-elections-rules-2007/schedule-2/paragraph-40
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