The Tribune

POLLING station confusion has frustrated some voters who turned out to vote early in the General Election today.

One South Beach resident said she changed her vote at the last minute because she was so upset.

She said that for the past 30 years she voted at CV Bethel High School, only to be turned away today when she arrived on foot.

She had to catch a ride with 'a stranger' to her actual polling station in Marshall Road.

With six hours of voting to go in the General Election, one voter, who voted in Nassau Village, said he made it all the way to the voting room, only to be turned around and sent to the back of the line at the correct polling station on the other side of the school.

Cleveland Eneas Primary School is the location for two constituencies: Pinewood and Nassau Village.

Voters said the polling station signs are 'too small and inconspicuous'.

The school entrance on the Charles W Saunders highway is the location of the Pinewood polling station, while the main entrance to the school on the side road Buttonwood Avenue is the location of the Nassau Village polling station.

Printed on each voter's card is the name of the constituency and the polling division number, said an official at the Parliamentary Registration

Department.

That polling division number must be matched against the list of polling stations published by the Parliamentary Registration Department in its public notice.

The Free National Movement and the Progressive Liberal Party have published the complete listing of polling stations from the Parliamentary Registration Department on their websites, encouraging voters to confirm where they hould present themselves.

This is the link: http://www.scribd.com/wdeliver/d/92266673-2012-GENERAL-ELECTION-POLLING-DIVISION-STATIONS

Across the Bahamas, voters were said to be 'calm and collected' as they went to the polls.