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Article 78
 

Polling controllers



1. Every candidature’s representative may appoint not later than three days before the poll, two controllers (interventores) for each polling bureau by issuing credentials out of a counterfoil book, with the date and his signature below the appointments.


2. The counterfoil leaves for each controller shall be divided into four parts: one as the counterfoil proper, which the representative must keep; the second one, which shall be handed to the controller as his credential; and a third and fourth ones, which shall be sent to the Judiciary District Commission, which shall in turn forward one of them to the relevant polling bureau and the other to the bureau in whose electors’ roll the controller is entered, so that he be excluded from voting at said bureau. The forwarding of the appointments to Judiciary District Commissions shall be done not later than the third day before polling day, and District Commissions are to send them to the bureaus in such a manner that they have already been received at the moment of
their constitution.


3. Any person registered in the Electoral Register and who is legally an elector, may be appointed as polling controller.
As regards electors not registered in the electors’ roll corresponding to the constituency where they are to perform as controllers, the District Electoral Commission concerned shall require the Electoral Register Office urgently to send the certificate of registration of said electors in the Electoral Register, unless this has been previously handed in by the person so appointed.


4. Salaried workers and employees and civil servants who show proof of their appointment as controllers shall be entitled during polling day and on the following day to a leave of absence as contemplated by Sect. 28 of this present Act for members of voting bureaus.



 3. AS AMENDED BY SECT. 5 OF INSTITUTIONAL ACT 1/2003, OF MARCH 10