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Article 304
 

304.1. The reception, deposit and safeguard of the packages containing the files of the polling stations by the district councils will be made according to the following procedure:


a) They will be received in the order they are delivered by the persons entitled to do so;


b) The president or authorized public servant of the district council will issue the receipt mentioning the time when they were delivered;


c) The president of the district council will deposit them, in the numerical order of the polling stations, placing the ones from the special polling stations separately, in a place within the premises of the council which meets the conditions of security from the time of the reception until the day in which the district count is carried out, and


d) The president of the district council, under his responsibility, will safeguard them and will for this purpose arrange to seal the doors providing access to the place where they were deposited in the presence of the representatives of the parties.


304.2. Of the receipt of the packages containing the files of the polling stations, detailed minutes will be taken in which it is recorded those that were received without fulfilling the requirements set out in this Law.