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Article 218
 

(1) Specimens of the voting ballots shall be displayed in front of the polling site.


(2) (Supplemented, SG No. 39/2016, effective 26.05.2016) Polling booths and machine voting enclosures shall be placed in the polling site in a manner such as to ensure the secrecy of the ballot. The booths and enclosures must accommodate the voting of visually impaired voters or voters with ambulant difficulties.


(3) (Amended, SG No. 39/2016, effective 26.05.2016) A panel shall be placed in front of the polling site and in the polling booths, directing voters by a text in capital letters how to vote expressing a preference and that they may express the vote thereof only by marking the ballot with an aXa or a aVa placed by means of a ballpoint pen writing in blue ink. The size and type of the said panel shall be determined by the Central Election Commission.


(4) (Amended, SG No. 35/2014, effective 22.04.2014) Upon elections of National Representatives, Members of the European Parliament for the Republic of Bulgaria and of municipal councillors, a panel shall be placed in front of the polling site and in the polling booths whereon the names and numbers of the candidates, disaggregated by candidate list of parties and coalitions, shall be written using the same font size, type and format. The names of the nationals of a Member State of the European Union, who are not Bulgarian nationals but are registered as candidates for Member of the European Parliament for the Republic of Bulgaria or for municipal councillor, shall be transliterated in Cyrillic as they appear on the application for contesting the elections according to the identity card or passport. To the left of the name of each candidate on a candidate list of a party or coalition, there shall be placed a circle with the sequential number of the candidate on the list under which number the said candidate has been registered by the competent election commission.


(5) Upon completion of the preparation for voting, the site shall be locked and sealed with a paper tape bearing the signatures of the members of the section election commission who are present.


(6) The polling sites shall be guarded on the outside by employees of the Ministry of Interior.