86.1. The secretaries of the directive boards of the polling stations have these responsibilities:

a) To take the minutes during the Election Day ordered by this Law and to distribute them in the terms established in this same Law;

b) To count, immediately before the voting begins and in the presence of the representatives of the political parties, the received electoral ballots and write down their folio numbers in the installation minutes;

c) To check that the name of the voter is included in the corresponding nominal list;

d) To receive the written objections presented by the representatives of the political parties;

e) To render unusable the remaining ballots according to the provisions of the subparagraph a) of paragraph 1 of article 290 of this Law, and

f) The other responsibilities established by this Law.