Voting takes place from 06:30 in the morning to 7o'clock in the evening. A voter can only vote at the polling station at which s/he is registered. The polling officers are there to assist you in the process of voting. There will also be polling agents representing political parties.

• Upon entering the polling station, the voter will go to a table seated polling officers to get a ballot paper for electing a Member of Parliament.
• The voter presents his/ her identity (Omang) card and registration card to the presiding officer who will confirm that the details of particulars of the voter correlate with the information in the voters roll, that the voter has not already voted at that election or that he has not become disqualified from voting.
• The presiding officer shall then cause the voter to immerse his/her thumb in indelible ink.
• The name of the voter is called and crossed out on the voters roll.
• A mark shall be made on the copy of the voters roll against the name of the voter to show that s/he has been issued with a ballot paper.
• The voter's registration card shall also be initialled and dated by the presiding officer at the back.
• The presiding officer shall then issue the voter with a ballot paper.
• A voter shall go into the polling booth where he/she shall secretly mark the ballot paper and fold it to conceal his vote, and put the ballot paper so folded up into the ballot box in the presence of the presiding officer.
• The voter proceeds to the next table with polling officers to get another ballot paper for electing a Councillor. Again, the voter shall go into the polling booth, and secretly mark the ballot paper. S/he shall then deposit it into the second ballot box, and leave the polling station.
• The presiding officer or polling officers shall not give any assistance or explanation to a voter other than to direct the voter to a polling booth where he/she may vote; informing the voter of the nature of the notice posted inside the polling booth; and informing him/her of the procedure the voter is to follow after entering the polling booth.
• A person voting outside Botswana shall be issued with a ballot paper and ballot envelope, and the name of the constituency under which that person has been registered, shall then be written or stamped on it. The voter then enters the polling booth to cast his/her vote. S/he shall then put the ballot paper into the ballot envelope and seal it. S/he shall then deposit it into the ballot box provided.
• Where a voter turns up to vote and he/she is objected to by a candidate, the presiding officer will cause both of them to make declaration of oath, and the objected voter will cast a vote. But against the voter's name on the election roll, the words "proteseted against", in terms of section 54 of the Electoral Act, shall be written.
• In the case of a voter incapacitated from voting by blindness or other physical cause, the presiding officer, in the presence of the person with whose assistance the voter came to cast his vote, shall cause the vote of a voter to be marked on a ballot paper in the manner durected by the voter, and the ballot paper to be placed in the ballot box.