And even with all those people who may not get their chance at the polls, the counting of the ballots is still expected to take longer than usual. Not as long as last week's US Elections, of course, but according to the Chief Elections Officer, ballots have to be moved from flooded areas, and elections officers need to be moved into them - a logistical complication that may slow down the process significantly.
Josephine Tamai, Chief Elections Officer, Elections and Boundaries
"Well I believe that the process will be efficient but since the last time you asked me that question I know that the whole flooding situation and access to certain areas by road, the road conditions are not as we would have wanted it to be because some got damaged with the flood so we could see whereby there could be some delays in terms of transporting of boxes will take maybe a couple minutes more than we had anticipated in the beginning. In areas like in for example in Belize City where we shouldn't have much of an issue we expect that the counting should be finished fairly quickly but in areas where the polling stations are far from the counting stations we could see whereby the counting will be put back a little bit so we are hoping we should get results by the following morning, I don't want to give a specific time because of some of the challenges we know we are going to experience."
The Channel 7 Team will be on the ground providing coverage until the final result.
