Media Visits to Voting Places

If you wish to gather footage, take photos, or otherwise cover activities at the voting place, please take note of the following guidelines: 

• Arrangements must be made in advance with the returning officer. 
• Upon arrival at the voting place, members of the media should make their presence known to the supervisor. 
• The supervisor will inform the election officers and voters present as to the presence of the media.  
• If any voter objects to media taking video or pictures in the voting place, the media must wait until the elector has voted and exited the voting place.  
• Care must be taken not to block access to the voting place entrance or otherwise interfere with the orderly operation of the voting place. Media visits must be brief. 
• Cameras cannot go behind the voting screen. No picture or video may be taken of a ballot, such that the secrecy of the vote is compromised.