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Section M10
 

  1. The chairperson of the electoral committee shall open the return envelope and take out the postal vote certificate and the envelope containing the ballot paper. He shall check whether the declaration that the voter has completed the ballot paper personally has been signed and whether the signature under it corresponds to the signature under the request referred to in section M 4, subsection 4. He shall then hand the postal vote certificate to the second member of the electoral committee.


 



  1. The second member of the electoral committee shall initial the request to show that the voter has cast his vote.


 



  1. The chairperson shall then hand the envelope containing the ballot paper unopened to the third member of the electoral committee. If the ballot paper is not in the envelope intended for that purpose, the chairperson shall hand the folded ballot paper, without examining it, to the third member of the electoral committee.


 



  1. The third member of the electoral committee shall place the envelope containing the ballot paper in the ballot box. If the ballot paper is not in the envelope intended for that purpose, the third member of the electoral committee shall put the folded ballot paper, without examining it, in the ballot box.