Add 2 Seperate Elements In 2 Seperate Arrays?

I have just found this wonderful forum through Dr Google whilst looking for an answer to my incredibly frustrating question! I am an OU student it is for an assignment I just cannot find the answer in any of the books and searching the net has got me nothing but so far wasted 3 hours :(

Here is the code snippet:

First I had to add a new array called totalVotes and assign a length to it the same as candidateArray, I have done this in the last 2 lines I think this is correct, the question did stipulate that if the candidate array was changed then so would the total votes array hence linking it via length.

Now here is where I am at a complete loss :( The exact wording is as follows:

Use a for loop to calculate the total votes for each candidate according to the following structured english:

For each array position add the element at that position in the online vote array to the element at the position in the paper vote array. store the result at the corresponding position in the total votes array end for.