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Article 72
 

(1) The constituency election commission shall:


1. implement the activities for the application of this Code and the statutory instruments related thereto;
2. exercise control over the operation of the section election commissions within the territory of the constituency or of the district according to the districting of Bulgaria for the last elections of National Representatives for a National Assembly;
3. conduct training of the members of the section election commissions in the constituency (district), jointly with the training unit referred to in Article 56 (1) herein;
4. appoint the section election commissions in the respective constituency (district) within Bulgaria and endorse the lists of alternate members;
5. dismiss members of section election commissions in the respective constituency (district) within Bulgaria in the cases of violations of this Code, of the decisions of the Central Election Commission and of the constituency election commission, as well as upon existence of any circumstance covered under Article 51 (2) herein;
6. see to the timely and correct establishment of voting sections in the constituency (district) and generate and endorse the uniform numbers thereof;
7. register and make public the nomination committees for contesting elections of National Representatives, issue certificates to the said nomination committees and keep a public register;
8. register and make public the candidate lists of the parties, coalitions and nomination committees upon elections of National Representatives and keep a public register;
9. strike the registration where it is established that the candidate for a National Representative does not satisfy the conditions under Article 65 (1) of the Constitution, as well as in the cases referred to in Article 258 (5) herein;
10. strike the registration where the independent candidate is not supported by the required number of voters according to Article 257 (1) herein;
11. strike the registration of nomination committee in the cases referred to in Item 10;
12. make public the numbers on the ballot of the independent candidates upon elections of National Representatives not later than 31 days in advance of polling day;
13. exercise control as to the timely making public of the electoral rolls, as to the delivery and safekeeping of the ballots and as to the issuing of non-resident voting certificates;
14. see to ensuring conditions for voting by persons with disabilities under Sections VIII and IX of Chapter Fourteen herein;
15. register, until polling day, the election agents of the candidate lists and issue certificates to the said agents;
16. keep a register of election agents, disaggregated by candidate list, upon elections of National Representatives, President and Vice President of the Republic and of Members of the European Parliament for the Republic of Bulgaria and publish the said register on the Internet site thereof;
17. control the handling of the election campaign by the media service providers operating within a regional and a local range, pronounce on complaints and alerts about irregularities affecting the election campaign within 17 hours after the arrival of any such complaints;
18. jointly with the municipal administration furnish the section election commissions with ballot boxes, voting ballots, electoral rolls, seals, blank forms of tally sheets, lists, drafts, and control the safekeeping, distribution among voting sections and transportation thereof;
19. exercise control as to discharge of the duty referred to in Article 62 (3) herein;
20. examine all complaints and alerts about irregularities affecting the election process in accordance with the powers vested therein, including against decisions and steps of the section election commissions; on polling day, pronounce by a decision within one hour after the arrival of the complaint or the alert and before the closing of the polls;
21. establish and maintain an electronic public register of the complaints and alerts lodged with the commission and the decisions thereon;
22. ascertain and declare the voting results in the constituency (district) within 48 hours after the completion of the voting and prepare a tally sheet;
23. within the time limit referred to in Item 22, scan and transmit to the Central Election Commission the tally sheet thereof showing the voting data in the constituency (district) and publish the said tally sheet on the Internet site thereof;
24. declare the independent candidates who have been elected upon elections of National Representatives and issue certificates to the said candidates;
25. provide, upon signed acknowledgement, the members of the commission, the candidates, the election agents, the representatives of the parties, coalitions and nomination committees and the observers with a copy of the signed tally sheet showing the voting results in the constituency (district), stamped on each page with the seal of the commission and signed by the chairperson, the deputy chairperson and the secretary;
26. deliver to the Central Election Commission the copy of the tally sheet of the constituency election commission, the copies of the tally sheets of the section election commissions destined for the Central Election Commission, the receipts on the computer processing of the tally sheets of the section election commissions, a copy of the computer print-out of the data on the tally sheet and the decision of the constituency election commission provided by the computation centre, and two machine-readable data mediums storing the numerical data generated by the processing of the tally sheets of the section election commissions, as well as the machine voting recording devices;
27. deliver the rest of the papers and materials to the regional administration with the exception of those destined for the Central Election Commission within seven days after the declaration of the election results;
28. scan the tally sheets of the section election commissions not later than 48 hours after the closing of the polls and transmit the said tally sheets to the Central Election Commission;
29. implement any other powers provided for in this Code.


(2) The constituency election commission shall forthwith make public the decisions thereof by means of displaying the said decisions in a generally accessible place in the building where the said commission is housed and by means of publication on the Internet site thereof. The place for making the decisions public shall be determined by a decision of the commission forthwith after the appointment of the commission and shall be arranged in a manner indicating the assigned use thereof. The copies of the decisions which are made public shall be marked with the date and hour when the said decisions are displayed in the generally accessible place. The copies of the decisions made public shall be removed not earlier than three days after the said decisions were displayed in the generally accessible place and shall be preserved in the archives of the commission.