Election campaign posters and billboards must come down tonight.
The Elections Law states: ‘No political broadcast, election advertising or political announcement shall be permitted on a polling day.’
Tomorrow, 11 May, is the polling day in Cayman as voters on all three islands choose their representatives for the next four years.
Supervisor of Elections Kearney Gomez explained that candidates’ billboards, roadside signs and posters on trees or utility poles are all considered election advertising.
A person who makes or carries on, or procures any other person to make or carry on, any political broadcast, political announcement or election advertising is guilty of an illegal practice.
The penalty on conviction is $500 or imprisonment for six months.
Mr. Gomez and his deputies, Mr. Orrett Connor and Mr. Colford Scott, will be driving around all five electoral districts on Grand Cayman tonight to check.
The Deputy Supervisor of Elections for Cayman Brac and Little Cayman is Mr. Ernie Scott.
Also prohibited on Election Day is any loudspeaker, banner or flag with a political message on any vehicle.
People are asked to refrain from wearing campaign T-shirts or buttons when they go to vote.
Newspaper advertising is prohibited on Election Day. But since tomorrow is a public holiday, no newspaper is being published.
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