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Article 51
 

Voting is performed in specially assigned premises that must be equipped with the sufficient number of booths or premises for secret voting and places for issue of ballots shall be determined and ballot boxes installed.The ballot boxes are placed so that the voters approach them only through the booths or premises assigned for secret voting.Ballot boxes must be within a field of sight of the members of the precinct commission and persons mentioned in part four of Article 13 of this Code.


The district commission is responsible for the organization of voting, the assuring of secret expression of will by voters and participants in the referendum, equipment of the premises and the maintenance in them of the necessary order.


On the day of elections, referendum or holding of vote on the recall of a deputy the ballot boxes shall be checked before the beginning of the voting and sealed by the chairperson of the precinct commission in the presence of not less than two thirds of the members of the commission.