Voters who are serving their Stay-Home Notices (SHN) at designated facilities will still get to vote.

Hotels like Marina Bay Sands and JW Marriott South Beach have been designated as Special Polling Stations.

The Elections Department (ELD) announced today (July 1) the procedure for polling at each Special Polling Station.

Before the start of polls, the polling team will show candidates and polling agents present at the Special Polling Station an empty ballot box before sealing it.

A copy of the Stay-Home Notice Voter Register, which will list the details of the voters at the premises, will be provided to the candidates and polling agents present.

Here's how the voting will proceed:

1. All Stay-Home Notice voters will remain in their rooms. A mobile polling team will deliver the ballot paper to each Stay-Home Notice voter in their room.
2. The Stay-Home Notice voter will open the room door, stand a distance of at least 1 metre inside the room, lower his mask momentarily and show his identity card/passport to the polling team.
3. The polling team will confirm the voter's identity, mark his record in the Stay-Home Notice Voter Register, read aloud the electoral division, polling district and voter serial number before issuing the ballot paper to the voter.
4. The voter will mark his ballot paper in private before depositing the marked ballot paper into the ballot box.
5. If the room is shared by a family of Stay-Home Notice voters (e.g. married couple or family with more than one voter), the polling team will repeat the process for each voter in the room.

Candidates and polling agents of the contesting parties for the electoral division in which the SV is voting may remain outside the Stay-Home Notice voter's room to observe polling proceedings, however, they must stand a distance away due to social distancing requirements.

At the close of polls, the polling team will seal both slits of the ballot box and invite candidates and polling agents that are present to sign or affix their own seals on the ballot box.

The ballot box will then be delivered to a centralised counting centre for counting.

Top image via Marriot Hotels.