The Ballot Unit (BU) – Electoral Commission of Namibia
The Ballot Unit (BU) The Ballot Unit is the voter interface and voters only interact with this unit and not the Control Unit. It consists of a permanently fixed interconnecting cable which connects the Ballot Unit to the Control Unit, ready lamp buttons, one register lamp button, slide switch window, and 15 candidate buttons. A ballot paper is inserted under the transparent screen of the Ballot unit. Voting using EVM The EVM does not change the existing voting pattern but only replaces the issuing of a paper ballot by the press of a green button on the Control Unit and instead of the voter ma...