The Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) has con­firmed that more than 3,000 spe­cial elec­tors have so far cast their votes. Spe­cial vot­ing be­gan on Mon­day, and the EBC is ex­pect­ing 16,748 in­di­vid­u­als to par­tic­i­pate in the process.

Ac­cord­ing to a state­ment from the EBC on Mon­day, “Spe­cial Elec­tors are re­mind­ed that their vot­ing pro­ce­dure dif­fers from the stan­dard process and may re­quire ad­di­tion­al time. As a re­sult, longer-than-usu­al wait times were ob­served to­day at some lo­ca­tions.”

The EBC al­so not­ed that over 1,400 in­di­vid­u­als par­tic­i­pat­ed on the open­ing day, with the high­est turnout record­ed in the mar­gin­al con­stituen­cy of Aranguez/St Joseph. EBC’s Chief Elec­tion Of­fi­cer Fern Nar­cis told Guardian Me­dia 1,500 spe­cial elec­tors par­tic­i­pat­ed on day two yes­ter­day.