The EBC has responded to complaints from a voter about a lack of initials on his ballot paper.

103.1FM News was contacted this morning by a San Fernando based attorney, who said he noticed the missing initials as he was about to deposit his paper in the ballot box at the Penal Secondary School.

He insisted on speaking with the Presiding Officer who he said informed him that she would initial the ballot paper during the counting process.

When contacted on the matter, an EBC official said “Ballot papers issued within a polling station and observed to be without the PO or DPO initials can be rectified during the count, according to the law.”

103.1FM sought clarification that this ballot would not be made invalid, to which the EBC official replied with an affirmative.

Meanwhile the UNC has submitted a formal complaint to the EBC regarding issues that it says were experienced in La Brea, Fyzabad and San Fernando.

In La Brea, it says these included the non-initialing of a ballot by the Deputy Presiding Officer, the casting of a ballot by a special voter under “unclear circumstances” and alleged canvassing at the Brighton Primary School.

In Gulf View, San Fernando it claims a PNM mock station was set up within 100 yards of a polling station and at the South Oropouche RC Primary School in Fyzabad, it says there was a report of an unlocked ballot box.

Meanwhile, on the issue of canvassing, concerns of such have also been expressed by parties such as the NTA, PNM and TPP in Tobago.