Campaigners can put their messages to voters outside polling places.
Campaigners should be polite and courteous at all times when speaking to members of the public face to face or on social media. Campaigners should be careful to ensure that their approach is proportionate and avoid any behaviour that may be construed as harassment or intimidation.
Campaigners should not congregate in groups around polling places where the number of campaigners and their vicinity to the polling place could be viewed by a voter as intimidating or impeding access to the polling place.
Campaigners should recognise that some voters may perceive large groups of supporters outside polling places as intimidating. Candidates should therefore avoid congregating in large groups directly outside polling places.
Campaigners should keep access to polling places and the pavements around polling places clear to allow voters to enter.
Campaigners must not stop, restrict or impede voters from entering or leaving the grounds of a polling place on foot or in a vehicle. Campaigners who impede voters’ access to a polling place will be directed to move by either polling station staff and/or police officers. Failure to do this may be an offence and campaigners may be prosecuted.
Campaigners should not attach any campaigning material to a polling place.
Campaigners should not attach flags, emblems, banners, posters or any other item used in connection with campaigning to a polling place or to any part of its perimeter wall or fence.
Tellers
Tellers must not demand any information relating to a voter’s elector number, name or address, or ask to see or check a voter’s photo ID.
Tellers have no legal status and voters have the right to refuse to give them any information. Tellers must not have discussions with voters that may give rise to allegations of undue influence (e.g. voting intentions, party affiliations or party campaigns).
However, tellers may in certain locations approach voters for information in accordance with instructions from the Polling Station Presiding Officer.
Tellers must always remain outside the polling station and not impede voters’ access to it.
Tellers must only enter the polling station to cast their own vote, to vote as a proxy or to accompany a disabled voter. They must always comply with the instructions of the Chief Electoral Officer or the Presiding Officer.