IEBC Boss to candidates: Feed, pay your agents on poll day or suffer painful consequences

In previous general elections, many agents raised complaints that their welfare is not catered for by candidates they are safeguarding their votes at polling stations. Like polling clerks and presiding officers, polling agents also wake up at dawn on election day. They are expected to arrive at polling stations at about 5.30 am. This gives them time to settle before 6.00 am when voting kicks off.

Upon completion of voting at 5.00 pm, counting of votes begins at a polling station. The counting may end at 8.00 pm or later depending on voter population and efficiency in counting the votes. In many occasions in the past, agents have complained that their political candidate or party abandoned them on elections day, leaving them with no money for meals.