Persons allowed in and around the voting center.
Section 36
SEC. 36. Persons allowed in and around the voting center.—On election day, no person shall be allowed inside the voting center, except the members of the election committee, the watchers, the representatives of the Commission, the voters casting their votes, the voters waiting for their turn to get inside the booth whose number shall not exceed twice the number of booths and the voters waiting far their turn to cast their votes whose number shall not exceed twenty at any one time. The watchers shall stay only in the space reserved for them. It shall be unlawful for any officer or member of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, including the Philippine Constabulary, or the Integrated National Police or peace officer or any armed person belonging to any extra-legal police agency, special forces, reaction forces, strike forces, home defense forces, barangay self-defense units, barangay tanods, or other similar forces, or para-military forces, including special guards, security agents, special policemen, and all other kinds of armed or unarmed extra-legal police officers or personnel to enter any voting center, unless it is his voting center where he will vote but in such case he should immediately leave the voting center, and within a radius of fifty meters from such voting center; and no policeman o,r peace officer shall bo allowed to enter or stay inside the voting center except when there is an actual disturbance of the peace and order therein. However, the committee, upon a majority vote, if it deem necessary, may make a call in writing, duly entered in the minutes, for the detail of a policeman or any peace officer for their protection or for the protection of the election documents and paraphernalia, in which case, the said policeman or peace officer shall stay outside the voting center within a radius of thirty meters near enough to be easily called by the committee at any time, but never inside the voting center or at the door thereof and in no case shall the said policeman or peace officer hold any conversation with any voter or disturb or prevent or in any manner obstruct the free access of the voters to the voting center. It shall likewise be unlawful for any barangay official to enter and stay inside any voting- center except to vote, in which case, he shall leave the voting center immediately after voting, except as watcher, inspector, or when summoned by the committee upon a majority vote for the same purpose as stated in this section.