Polling Station Quiz

Quiz for polling station staff at the European Union Referendum 2016

Test your knowledge of the polling place processes – please indicate your answers by circling the box of your choice.

Q.1 What time does the polling station open?

6am 7am 8am

Q.2 Can a Polling Agent use their copy of the Electoral Register to make notes?

Yes, but the register No, not under any Yes, they can mark must remain in the circumstances who has voted polling station till close of poll

Q.3 What colour is an accredited observer’s badge?

Blue Silver Pink

Q.4 What do you write on the Corresponding Number List (CNL)?

Ballot paper number Elector’s name Elector’s number

Q.5 How do you mark the register when you have identified the elector?

With a line between With a line through the electoral With a line through the name number and the the electoral number name Q.6 If a voter wants to hand in a completed postal vote, what should you do?

Check if it is for the Tell them they cannot correct ward/division, hand in their postal Ask the person to and if so, accept and vote, but can be post it place it in the given a ballot paper appropriate packet at the polling station

Q.7 If the elector is not listed on the register, what is the first thing you should you do?

Check whether they Add their name to Contact the elections are registered to vote the register and office to check if they at another polling issue them a ballot should be on the station paper register

Q.8 An elector is marked with a ‘G’ alongside their entry in the register. What do you do?

Mark the register and Explain to the elector the CNL as Issue a tendered that they are not appropriate, and ballot paper eligible to vote in the issue a ballot paper referendum

Q.9 Should the ballot paper be folded when handing it to the elector?

Yes, folded so the so No, it should be Yes, fold in half the elector can still unfolded see the boxes

Q.10 At the end of the register there are some elector numbers with no name just an ‘N’. What are these?

They are a Non- They are an They are a ‘New’ voter and cannot aNonymous voter voter but can vote vote and can vote Q.11 A voter makes a mistake on their ballot paper. What do you do?

Cancel the spoilt paper, place it in Tell the voter to put it Issue a tendered the appropriate into the ballot box ballot paper packet and issue another one.

Q.12 An elector enters the polling station and says they are a postal voter but have lost their ballot paper, can they vote here?

If before 5pm send Tell them no, them to the Electoral Issue a ballot paper nothing can be Office if after issue a done tendered ballot.

Q.13 A person arrives to vote as proxy for a registered elector but the elector is marked as having already voted. What is the first thing you do?

Tell the person that Issue a ballot paper the elector has to the proxy and already voted, and Issue a tendered inform the elections so they are not ballot paper office needed to act as proxy

Q.14 An elector arrives but the register has already been marked as showing them as having voted earlier during the day. What do you do?

The Presiding Officer should put the prescribed questions Turn the voter Rub out the line in to the elector and away and say you the register, replace issue a tendered cannot issue them it, and then issue a ballot paper if a ballot paper ballot paper satisfied with the response Q.15 At the close of poll, 10pm, there is a queue of people wanting to vote. What do you do?

Stop issuing ballot Give them a queue papers only after the Shut the polling ticket, which they last person, including station and tell them give to the PO those arriving after they cannot vote allowing them to 10pm, has received a vote ballot paper

Q.16 As you are clearing up the polling station, you discover a number of poll cards that have been left by voters. What do you do with these?

Give them to any Place them in the Put them in the bin tellers that are blue sack outside

Amended from Electoral Commission Local Elections Quiz.