The transparent voting booths are now in Zurich and available for use in Friday’s election.
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Blatter resigned four days later, setting up Friday’s election, in which five candidates are running.
Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, Gianni Infantino, Tokyo Sexwale and Jerome Champagne are the other four candidates vying for the position, which is set to be decided in Zurich this week.
Prince Ali described the reprimand as belonging to “old FIFA”.
“It is now imperative that voters abide by the ban on mobile phones and cameras in the voting booth”.
Prince Ali and Champagne expressed their fears these extra supporters would lobby on behalf of their chosen candidate.
Prince Ali said he had written to the FIFA Electoral Committee on February 11 to express his concerns that pressure would be put on delegates.
It is understood reports Prince Ali has called for the election to be postponed are premature.
Conservative MP Damian Collins on Tuesday raised questions over Sheikh Salman’s election as AFC president in 2013 and said the Government should not support any bids by the Football Association to host FIFA tournaments if the Bahraini is elected president of football’s world governing body.
“The request for provisional measures was rejected by the President of the CAS Appeals Arbitration Division”.
Gulati and U.S. Soccer also backed Ali last May, when he mounted a surprisingly strong challenge to FIFA’s longtime incumbent president, Sepp Blatter, in the previous presidential election.
Many observers believe that Salman has been able to keep most of Blatter’s supporters in the same voting bloc, particularly from Asia and Africa, which may be able to overcome Infantino’s backing of most major European nations.
Bedoya, a former FIFA executive committee member from Colombia, and Jadue, who is from Chile, resigned as presidents of their national soccer federations in November.
Sheikh Salman has been pledged nine votes from the East Asian Football Federation in Friday’s FIFA presidential election.
The African leader prevented from going for FIFA’s top job, after failing an integrity check, says delegates must reject proposed reforms at soccer’s scandal-hit global body as they would leave the president powerless.
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The case against Platini first stalled and then ended his campaign to succeed Sepp Blatter, whose ban was also cut to six years.
