82(1)Voting shall be by secret ballot, and each elector entitled to vote shall receive from the deputy returning officer a ballot paper on the back of which the deputy returning officer has, as prescribed in subsection 75(2), affixed his initials, so placed, as indicated in the form mentioned in subsection 63(6), that when the ballot paper is folded the initials can be seen without unfolding the ballot paper.
82(2)The deputy returning officer shall instruct the elector how and where to affix his mark, and shall properly fold the elector’s ballot paper, directing him to return it, when marked, folded as shown, but without inquiring or seeing for whom the elector intends to vote, except when the elector is unable to vote in the manner prescribed by this Act on account of inability to read, blindness, or other physical incapacity and is not accompanied by a friend as provided by subsection 83(4).
82(3)The elector, on receiving the ballot paper, shall
(a)
forthwith proceed into a voting compartment and there mark his ballot paper by making a cross, an “X”, a check mark, or such other mark as is sufficient to indicate his intention to vote for a particular candidate without disclosing his identity, with a pencil or pen within the small circular space on the ballot paper in which the natural colour of the paper appears opposite the name of the candidate for whom he intends to vote;
(b)
fold the ballot paper as directed so that the initials on the back of it can be seen without unfolding it;
(c)
show the ballot paper to the deputy returning officer in such a manner that the deputy returning officer may ascertain that the ballot paper is the one he gave the voter; and
(d)
deposit the ballot paper in the ballot box.
82(4)An elector who has inadvertently dealt with the ballot paper delivered to him in such manner that it cannot conveniently be used shall return it to the deputy returning officer, who shall deface it in such manner as to render it a spoiled ballot; the deputy returning officer shall then deliver another ballot paper to the elector.