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Assistance to voters

A presiding officer or polling officer may assist or instruct a voter in the manner of voting at a polling station if a voter who is incapacitated by blindness or other physical disability from voting in a manner prescribed by the other provisions of this Chapter requests in person the presiding officer or polling officer to so assist the voter in the manner directed by the voter to record the vote of the voter, but without interfering with the exercising of the franchise of the voter.

A presiding officer who is satisfied that the person accompanying the voter concerned is entrusted by the voter and has reached the age of 18 years must permit the voter to vote with the assistance of the person accompanying him or her. Except as provided in this section, a person may not converse or in any other manner interfere with a voter at any time after the voter has been handed a ballot paper or entered a polling booth in order to vote by voting machine until the voter leaves the polling booth.