Appearance of controllers at the polling bureau

1. Upon constituent meeting of the bureau, the presiding officer and the members are to receive between eight and eight-thirty a.m. the credentials of controllers appearing in this capacity and check them against the counterfoil sheets in their possession, and if they are satisfied of conformity between the credentials and the counterfoils, they shall admit said controllers to the bureau. If the presiding officer has not received those sheets or is in doubt about the authenticity of the credentials, the identity of the controllers present or on both points, he shall nevertheless grant them admission if they so request, but he is to state his reservations in the minutes so that the issue can be properly clarified and the controllers in question be prosecuted.

2. Where more than two controllers appear on behalf of one particular candidature, the presiding officer shall only admit those who first deliver their credentials, to which end he is to number the credentials by chronological order of delivery.

3. Counterfoil sheets received by the presiding officer must be appended to the election records. Credentials produced by the controllers shall be handed back to them after having been checked by the presiding officer. If the presiding officer has not received said sheets, the corresponding credentials must be appended to the election records at the end of the counting. 

4. The presiding officer shall not admit to the discharge of their duties any controller who appears before the bureau after eight-thirty a.m., once the minutes of constitution have been drafted. Provided that said controller shall have the right to vote at the bureau.