SP Quiz For Polling Station Staff 5

Quiz for polling station staff at a
Scottish Parliamentary election

Test your knowledge of the polling place processes – please indicate your
answers by circling the box of your choice.
Q.1 What time must the polling station open?
6am 7am 8am
Q.2 How should a voter mark their ballot papers?
With numbers With a cross With ticks
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 numbers 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 completed postal votes, what should you
do?
Check if they are for

the correct Tell them they cannot
constituency, and if hand in their postal
Ask the person to
so, accept and place votes, but can be
post them
them in the given ballot papers at
appropriate packet the polling station
Q.7 If the elector is not listed on the register, what is the first thing you
should do?
Contact the
Apologise and tell Add their name to registration office to
them that they can’t the register and check if they should
vote issue them ballot be on the register or
papers are at the wrong
polling station
Q.8 An elector is marked with an ‘F’ alongside their entry in the register.
What do you do?
Explain to the elector

that they are not
Mark the register and eligible to vote in the
Issue tendered
the CNL and issue Scottish
ballot papers
ballot papers Parliamentary
election
Q.9 An elector is marked with an ‘M’ alongside their entry in the register.
What do you do?
Explain to the
elector that they
Mark the register and
are not eligible to
the CNL and issue Issue tendered ballot
vote in the Scottish
ballot papers papers
Parliamentary
election
Q.10 A voter makes a mistake on one of their ballot papers. 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. 11 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

the elector has
Issue ballot papers to
already voted, and Issue tendered ballot
the proxy and inform
so they are not papers
the elections office
needed to act as
proxy
Q.12 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 if
away and say you the register, replace
authorised by the
cannot issue them it, and then issue
elections office, issue
ballot papers ballot papers
tendered ballot
papers if satisfied
with the response
Q.13 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?
Add them to sundry Give them to any

Put them in the bin items that are being tellers that are
returned outside
Q.14 An elector arrives at the polling station shortly after 10pm. There is a
queue of electors waiting to vote. What should you tell the elector?
Join the end of the Only those electors Polling closes at
queue and wait to be who were in the 10pm so nobody in
issued with ballot queue at 10pm are the queue will be
papers able to vote able to vote
Answers
Q.1 Polling hours for the elections are 7am to 10pm.
Q.2 At the Scottish Parliamentary constituency election, voters have one

vote, which they can use to vote for a candidate. They should mark
their ballot paper by placing a single ‘X’ in the box next to the candidate
of their choice.
At the Scottish Parliamentary regional election, voters have one vote,

which they can use to vote for a party or an individual regional
candidate. They should mark their ballot paper by placing a single ‘X’ in
the box next to the party or individual regional candidate of their choice.
Q.3 An accredited observer’s badge is silver (an Electoral Commission

representative’s badge is pink).
Q.4 The elector’s electoral number is written on the CNL next to the pre-
printed number of the ballot paper being issued.
Q.5 A line is drawn between the electoral number and the elector’s name to
indicate that the elector has voted. Both the number and the name
should still be clearly visible after marking the register.
Q.6 If a postal vote is handed into a polling station it must be for the correct
constituency. Always check that the envelope contains the
constituency name before accepting it. If it contains the name of a
different constituency, direct the voter to a polling station in that
constituency. If there is no envelope, or it does not contain the
constituency name, or if you are unsure about which polling station the
voter should go to, direct them to the elections office.
Q.7 If an elector is not listed on the register but the person definitely lives
within the area covered by the polling station, check with the Electoral
Registration Officer (ERO) just in case there has been an error when
compiling the register. If the ERO determines that an elector has been
mistakenly omitted from the register, they will give notice to the
Presiding Officer (either in writing or orally). The procedure to allow a
person to vote following the correction of such an error is set out in
detail in the Commission’s polling station handbook.
Q.8 An ‘F’ marker indicates that the elector is an overseas elector who can
vote only in UK Parliamentary and European Parliamentary elections.
Q.9 An ‘M’ marker indicates that the elector is a qualifying foreign citizen or
prisoner serving a sentence of 12 months or less; both can vote in a
Scottish Parliamentary election.
Q. 10 If a voter spoils a ballot paper they should be issued with a

replacement ordinary ballot paper. Before issuing the replacement, the
CNL needs to be marked to indicate that the original ballot paper has
been cancelled and the elector’s electoral number needs to be entered
again next to the new ballot paper being issued. The spoilt ballot paper
should have the word ‘cancelled’ written clearly across the front and
should be placed in the appropriate packet/envelope – it should not be
put in the ballot box. At the close of poll, all spoilt ballot papers will
need to be counted and the figure written in the ballot paper account.
Q.11 An elector can appoint a proxy to vote on their behalf. However, the
elector can also vote in person if they arrive at the polling station before
the proxy. The proxy should, therefore, be told that the voter has
already voted. If, however, the proxy insists that the elector has not
voted, they can be issued with tendered ballot papers after answering
the prescribed questions. If the proxy had applied to vote by post,
shown on the register as an ‘A’ marker, the elector cannot vote in
person in the polling station.
Q.12 If an elector has already been marked as having voted, the Presiding
Officer should put the prescribed questions to the voter and issue
tendered ballot papers. These ballot papers must not be placed in
the ballot boxes.
Q.13 Poll cards contain personal information – they should be disposed of

securely by returning them to the elections office, but not in any packet
designed for particular items.
Q.14 Polling must close at 10pm, but any eligible electors who at 10pm are
in their polling station, or in a queue outside their polling station for the
purposes of voting must be allowed to vote. Make sure nobody joins
the queue after 10pm.

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Quiz for polling station staff at a

Scottish Parliamentary election

Q.1 What time must the polling station open?

6am 7am 8am

Q.2 How should a voter mark their ballot papers?

With numbers With a cross With ticks

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 numbers Elector’s name Elector’s number

With a line between

Check if they are for

Explain to the elector

Cancel the spoilt

Tell the person that

The Presiding Officer

Add them to sundry Give them to any

Q.2 At the Scottish Parliamentary constituency election, voters have one

At the Scottish Parliamentary regional election, voters have one vote,

Q.3 An accredited observer’s badge is silver (an Electoral Commission

Q. 10 If a voter spoils a ballot paper they should be issued with a

Q.13 Poll cards contain personal information – they should be disposed of

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