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Article 307
 

307.1. As the electoral packages are delivered to the district council, the results found in the minutes approved for this effect and placed on the top of the electoral package should be registered in the order that the electoral packages are delivered, until the expiry of the legal time limit, according to the following rules:


a) The district council will authorize the personnel needed for the continuous and simultaneous receipt of the electoral packages. The political parties may accredit their substitute representatives for them to be present during the reception;


b) The appointed electoral officials will receive the scrutiny and count certificates and will immediately read aloud of the outcome of the votes that appear in them, proceeding to make the corresponding addition in order to immediately inform the Executive Secretariat of the Institute;


c) The secretary, or the public servant authorized for this, will record these results in the corresponding place and in the determined way, according to the numerical order of the polling stations, and


d) The representatives of political parties accredited before the General Council will have the appropriate forms to record in them the results of the vote in the polling stations.