The Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) on Tuesday, September 1 completed the sorting of ballots for special services voting for the September 3 General Election. The sorting of these ballots indicates that 56 percent of the total police, military and Election Day worker voting population cast ballots at 377 polling stations island-wide on Monday, August 31. This compares to a special services voter turnout of 63 percent in the 2016 General Election.
Of the 46,777 special services personnel, 26,276 voted as shown in the results table below:
| Special Service Category | Number on Voter’s List | Number of Ballots | Turnout % |
| Police | 11,512 | 4,849 | 42% |
| Military | 4,181 | 982 | 23% |
| Election Day Worker | 31, 084 | 20,445 | 66% |
| Total | 46,777 | 26,276 | 56% |
Director of Elections, Glasspole Brown, says reports from across the island indicate a fairly quiet day.
“All polling stations opened as scheduled at 8 a.m. and we did not receive any reports of any major incidences. Overall, the day went quite smoothly,” he said.
Special service voters’ ballots are placed in specially marked individual envelopes which are then sorted the night after the election and will be counted on Election Day along with the ballots cast by civilian non-Election Day workers. While the Electoral Office has determined how many ballots have been received, there is no indication of how the electors have voted as the envelopes remain sealed and vaulted until the counting on Election Day.
