Brown Kasaro, the Commission’s Chief Electoral Officer, gave the clarification during a stakeholders’ meeting with political parties at the Mulungushi International Conference Centre in Lusaka. “An X, yes, or a tick, or a line crossing from right across the ballot paper along that candidate. It states that a voter must mark the ballot paper with a cross before folding it so the official stamp is visible but the mark itself is not. He also repeated the Commission’s standing instruction that voters must not sign the ballot paper or write their initials on it. Political parties, election monitors and voters are left to work from Mr Kasaro’s verbal clarification in the meantime.