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Section 10
 

(1) When voting, the voter shall show proper identification (Sections 67 and 70, paragraph 1, NCEA). Is he registered as a voter, the returning officer shall hand him an empty voting envelope and the official ballot sheet.


(2) When a voter carries a voting card, the returning officer, after receiving the envelope from the voter (Section 5a, paragraph 6), shall hand him the official ballot sheet therein contained, remove the white voting envelope and replace it with a blue one. The white voting envelope shall be destroyed by the returning officer. The returning officer shall expressly advise the voter carrying a voting card that the ballot sheet received together with the voting card must be used for voting. If a voter carrying a voting card does not longer have this ballot sheet in his possession, he shall be provided with a new official ballot sheet.


(3) When a voter carries a voting card in a second round of voting, not only the beige voting envelope shall be replaced, but also the ballot sheet pursuant to Section 11, paragraph 3, shall be substituted by a ballot sheet pursuant to Section 11, paragraph 2.


(4) The returning officer shall instruct the voter to proceed to and enter the voting booth. There the voter shall complete the official ballot sheet and put it into the voting envelope. Thereupon, he shall leave the voting booth and put the closed voting envelope shall put the unopened voting envelope into the ballot box. If the voter does not want to do that, s/he may hand it over to the returning officer. The returning officer shall put the unopened voting envelope into the ballot box.


(5) If the voter has made an error in completing the official ballot sheet, he may request a further ballot sheet. In this case, the voter shall tear and destroy the first official ballot sheet in the presence of the election officers and take it with him to preserve confidentiality.


(6) In any case, the handing over of any additional official ballot sheet shall be noted in the voting protocol.