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Article 142
 

The voters are admitted to vote from 8.00am to 1.00pm. If the election for the Chamber of Representatives takes place at the same time as the ones for the other assemblies, the King may defer the closing time of the polling stations.


However, all voters present inside the polling station before 1.00pm or before the hour defined by the King according to the 1st sentence are admitted to vote.


In the order of the arrival of the voters equipped with their invitation to vote and their identity car, the secretary ticks off their names on the attendance list; the head of the polling station or an assessor he appoints, do the same on a different voters list of the section after verifying the indications on the list with the ones in the invitation to vote and the identity card. The names of the voters not registered on the voters list of the section but authorized to vote through the committee are added to both lists.


The voter who did not take his invitation to vote with him, may be admitted to vote if his identity and his quality as voter are acknowledged by the committee.


The chairmen, secretaries, witnesses and suppliant witnesses vote in the in the section where they officiate.


No one shall be allowed to participate in the elections without being registered on the list given to the chairman unless he can produce a decision from the Council of burgomasters and lay judges ordering his registration, or a letter of acknowledgement from the Council of burgomasters and lay judges certifying the quality of voter of the concerned person.


In spite of being registered on the list, the polling station cannot admit to vote those who have been eliminated from the list after a decision of the Council of burgomaster and lay judges or a court of appeal; those who fall under one of the provisions in articles 6 and 7 and whose incapacity is established in a document stipulating deliverance; those who according to documents or their confessions do not have the required age to vote on the day of the elections, or have already voted on the same day in a different section or municipality.