Only a slight majority of people understand that voters will use only one ballot paper in the March 24 election, according to a survey carried out by the National Institute of Development Administration, or Nida Poll.
The poll was conducted on March 5-6 on 1,251 people aged 18 and above of various levels of education and occupations across the country to gauge their understanding of the voting method in the forthcoming election.
Asked whether they know how many ballot papers each voter will use in casting their vote, a slight majority of the respondents, 51.96% said "yes" and 48.04% said "no".
However, 7.23% of those who said "yes" believed -- incorrectly -- that they would be given two ballot papers.
In previous elections, each voter was given two ballot papers -- one to vote for a constituency MP, and the other for a party.
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Asked whether they knew that each party's election candidates will have different numbers in different constituencies, a slight majority, 51.80%, said "yes" and 48.20% said "no".
A majority, 62.03%, said they already knew the number of the candidate they intended to vote for.
