If you live in the UK, you have one vote to choose who represents you in the House of Commons. Most of the members of Parliament, or MPs, are from political parties but there are also independent MPs. At a UK general election, you will have the opportunity to elect the MP who you think should represent your constituency in the House of Commons.
A person who is a registered voter may, on the day appointed for the poll, require the Parliamentary Commissioner to sign and seal the counterfoil of his voters’ card. The Commissioner shall make any additions, deletions or corrections in the correcting register which appear necessary as a result of such signing and sealing.
On the day before polling day the Parliamentary Commissioner shall prepare a new correcting register (which is referred to in this Act as ‘the correcting register’) for each constituency, together with all voters’ cards and counterfoils of the same which were issued in connection with the preparation of the old register. The correcting register so prepared shall, when completed and ready for use, come into force at once after expiration of the old register.
In each constituency the Parliamentary Commissioner shall appoint in writing for each polling division not less than two persons of full age to be scrutineers, notice of such appointment being given in two daily newspapers published in The Bahamas or, in the case of a constituency in a Family Island, posted on the public notice board at the office of the Commissioner in that constituency. The scrutineers shall be required to visit, in each of the polling divisions of the constituency, the dwelling places of all registered voters and, if unable to secure all information necessary for the purpose, leave at such place a written notice indicating that they are unable to do so.
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