Bases Placing voting sites within armed forces bases is a course preferably to be avoided.
Such locations may be intimidating to polling officials, and there may be difficulties with all political participants being free to monitor voting processes, or provide party and candidate information near the voting site. This can be of particular concern where there has been any perceived history of political partisanship on the part of armed forces. If voting locations are within armed forces bases it may also be easier for junior armed forces members to feel pressured into voting in a particular way, through the presence of commanding or senior staff in the vicinity. For similar reasons, where there is organised transport for troop units to voting stations, officers and other senior ranks should not be in the voting station supervising troops while they are voting. Such potential intimidation may be a particular concern in countries with conscripted forces.