The Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) says it is finalizing preparations to conduct the polls for the 45,455 Special Services electors across the island on Friday August 29.

Election Day workers and members of the police and military forces are expected to vote that day.

The EOJ says a total of 215 locations have been designated to facilitate voting.

The list of polling locations includes schools, churches, police stations, community centres and military bases and are allocated as follows:

There are 12,793 police electors, 5,126 military electors and 27,536 Election Day workers.

The EOJ says a total of 215 locations have been designated to facilitate voting.

The list of polling locations includes schools, churches, police stations, community centres and military bases and are allocated as follows:

38 polling stations across 10 polling locations for military voting;
92 polling stations in 21 polling locations for the police; and
197 polling stations across 184 polling locations for Election Day workers.

According to the EOJ, the Representation of the People Act makes provisions for Election Day workers, police and military to vote ahead of the rest of the population, to ensure that they are available for duty on Election Day.

It said Special Services electors who do not use the opportunity to vote on Friday, August 29 will not be able to do so on September 3 because their names have been extracted from the general voters’ list.

It further explained that the names on the voters’ lists used on August 29 will not be on the civilian list used on September 3.

The electoral body said police and military personnel have been assigned to vote at the voting location closest to where they are based or stationed.

The EOJ said the ballots will later be sorted and transferred to the respective Returning Officers to be counted on September 3.