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Article 17
 

Polling Station

(1) A polling station shall be furnished with a regular ballot-box, a portable ballot-box, a sufficient amount of ballot-papers, pens and pencils, copies of extracts from the Permanent Electoral Roll, copies of extracts from the Register of Persons Unable to Vote Locally, and a copy of this Act which shall be made available to voters for inspection should they so request.

(2) To afford privacy and secrecy for the voters to express their preferences in the ballots, polling stations shall be furnished with voting booths. Depending on the size of the electorate in the ward in question, the Mayor of the respective Municipality shall determine how many enclosures shall be installed. Nobody shall accompany a voter inside the voting booth, including any member of the ward election board, except as otherwise provided for in this Act.

(3) A national flag shall be hoisted on the building in which a polling station is located, and a large national emblem shall, with due regard, decorate the polling station. 6)

6) Act of the Czech National Council No. 3/1993 Sb., on National Symbols of the Czech Republic

(4) Before the polling station opens, the chairman of the ward election board shall be obliged to examine whether the polling station is furnished as stipulated by the provisions of the foregoing paragraphs, and, witnessed by the other members of the board, shall seal the regular ballot-box and the portable ballot-box. Both the regular and portable ballot-boxes shall be scrutinized and emptied before sealing.

(5) After the polling station has closed on the first day of the election, the chairman of the ward election board shall have the ballot-box and, if applicable, the portable ballot-box sealed so that ballots can neither be inserted nor taken out. He shall also make sure that other election-related documents are safeguarded. Before the polling station opens on the second day of the election, the chairman of the ward election board shall examine whether seals are in an intact, or untampered with, condition and remove the seals.