(1) According to the number of voters in an electoral ward, the Mayor shall determine the lowest permitted number of officers who need to be on the ward election board so that the ward election board has no less than five members. However, wards where the electorate does not exceed three hundred voters shall be an exception; the election board of such wards may consist of three members and a secretary.
(2) Each Political Party and coalition which has duly registered its list of candidates running for a seat in the Chamber of Delegates in the electoral region within which the respective electoral ward is located, and each Political Party or coalition which has duly registered its candidate running for a seat in the Senate in the electoral division within which the respective ward is located shall have the right to delegate one representative and one stand-in of his/her to be on the ward election board. The ward election board member and the stand-in shall be delegated no later than thirty days prior to the day of the elections. Should an insufficient number of board members be delegated through the above procedure, the Mayor shall appoint additional members so that the total number of members of the ward election board complies with the provisions stipulated in Paragraph 1 of this Article.
(3) The ward election board shall be called to its first session by the Mayor so that the session shall commence no later than the twenty-first day prior to the day of the elections.
(4) The ward election board shall:
conduct the polling, supervise whether ballots are cast appropriately, and make efforts to maintain order in the polling station;
count the votes cast, and draft a record of the polling process and the vote count. The record shall, without delay, be transmitted to the (bb) district election board in the case of election to the Chamber of Delegates, and (bc) divisional election board in the case of election to the Senate;
deposit all other election-related papers and documents to the Local Authorities for safe-keeping.
