Setting-up of polling bureaus

1. Polling bureaus shall be set up by city councils under the supervision of Judiciary District Electoral Commissions.


2. The presiding officer and members of each bureau shall be publicly designated by lot among all persons registered in the corresponding election ward provided they are under seventy years of age and they can read and write. Those older than sixty-five may however publicly excuse themselves within the next seven days. The presiding officer shall be a grammar school or seconddegree professional training graduate or, failing this, have a primary school qualification or an equivalent one.


3. The same procedure shall be followed for designation of the two substitutes for each member of the bureau.


4. The drawings of lots contemplated above shall be carried out between the twenty-fifth and twenty-ninth days after the call of the election.

 2. AS AMENDED BY SECT. 7 OF INSTITUTIONAL ACT 2/2011, OF JANUARY 28