The Supervisor of Elections, Mr Rodney Rey, has drawn the attention of the general public in Anguilla to the following extracts from the Elections Act 2019, as amended:
Influencing voters
- (1) No person shall—
(a) on any public road; or
(b) in any public place;
within 100 yards of any building in which a polling station is located, seek to influence any voter to vote for any candidate or to ascertain for what candidate any voter intends to vote or has voted whilst the poll is open on polling day.
(2) Any person who contravenes the provisions of subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of $9,600 and to imprisonment for 3 months.
Intoxicating liquor not to be sold or given on polling day
- (1) No intoxicating liquor shall be sold, offered for sale, or given away at any premises
located in any electoral district in which an election is being held, at any time between the opening and the closing of the poll on polling day.
(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply to a licensed restaurant or hotel.
(3) Any person who contravenes this section shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of $4,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months.
Acts prohibited on polling day
- (1) No person shall furnish or supply any loudspeaker, bunting, ensign, banner, standard or set of colours, or any other flag, to any person with intent that it shall be carried, worn or used on motor cars, trucks or other vehicles, as political propaganda, on polling day, and no person shall, with any such intent, carry, wear or use, on motor cars, trucks or other vehicles, any such loudspeaker, bunting, ensign, banner, standard or set of colours, or any other flag, on polling day.
(2) No person shall furnish or supply any flag, ribbon, label or like favour to any person with intent that it be worn or used by any person within any electoral district on polling day as a party badge to distinguish the wearer as the supporter of any candidate, or of the opinions, political or otherwise, of the candidate, and no person shall use or wear any flag, ribbon, label or other favour, as such a badge, within any electoral district on polling day.
(3) No person shall broadcast any item on polling day on any media including television or wireless transmitting station, which may promote or attempt to procure the election of any candidate or of any political party.
(4) Each candidate shall, before midnight on the day before polling day, ensure the removal of all billboards, signs, posters and banners which are visible from any public road.
(5) No person shall consume or offer any food or drink, save for water, for consumption within 100 yards of a polling station.
(6) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of $40,000 and to imprisonment for one year.
