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§10. (1) Until conduct of the elections of President and Vice President of the Republic in 2016, with the exception of the general elections of municipal councillors and mayors in 2015, the machine voting provided for in this Code shall be experimental and shall be conducted in up to 500 voting sections. The sections for machine voting shall be designated by the Central Election Commission not later than five days after the date of scheduling of the respective type of election.


(2) The Central Election Commission shall adopt rules for the conduct of the experimental machine voting under Paragraph (1), as well as for the summing of the results of the said voting.


(3) Each voter, irrespective of whether he or she has voted in the same elections by paper ballot, may participate in the experimental machine voting under Paragraph (1). Article 206 (3) herein shall not apply. The experimental machine voting shall be carried out according to the procedure established by Article 268 herein. The fact that the voter has participated in experimental machine voting shall be noted in the electoral roll under Article 268 (5) herein in the column designated aNotesa.


(4) Upon the experimental machine voting under Paragraph (1), the provisions of this Code regarding the tallying of the results shall not apply. The results of the experimental machine voting under Paragraph (1) shall be provided to the constituency election commission or municipal election commission, which shall deliver the said results to the Central Election Commission.


(5) The results of the experimental machine voting shall be ignored upon the determining of the election results. 


§ 11. (Amended and supplemented, SG No. 39/2016, effective 26.05.2016) Upon conduct of the elections of President and Vice President of the Republic in 2016 and upon conduct of the general elections of municipal councillors and mayors in 2015, machine voting shall be conducted in at least 500 voting sections. The sections for machine voting shall be designated by the Central Election Commission not later than ten days after the date of scheduling of the respective type of election. Upon conduct of the elections of President and Vice President of the Republic in 2016, experimental machine counting shall be carried out according to rules adopted by the Central Election Commission.


§ 12. Within 15 days after the entry into force of this Code, the National Assembly shall elect and, respectively, the President shall appoint, new members of the Central Election Commission. The term of office of the members of the Central Election Commission who are incumbent upon the entry into force of this Code shall be terminated by the assumption of office of the new members.


§ 13. Not later than 55 days in advance of the conduct of elections of Members of the European Parliament for the Republic of Bulgaria in 2014, the Central Election Commission shall:


1. adopt the rules referred to in Article 48 (3) herein;
2. establish the Public Council referred to in Article 55 herein and the training unit referred to in Article 56 herein;
3. establish the terms and procedure for the machine voting;
4. endorse the standard forms of the election stationery for the elections of Members of the European Parliament for the Republic of Bulgaria in 2014 and promulgate the said designs in the State Gazette;
5. in consultation with the Council of Ministers, establish the terms and procedure for the manufacture, delivery and safekeeping of the election stationery and materials, including for the safekeeping of the machine-voting technical devices.


§ 14. Within four months after the entry into force of this Code, the Central Election Commission shall endorse the standard forms of the election stationery for each type of election other than those for the election for Members of the European Parliament for the Republic of Bulgaria in 2014, and shall promulgate the said forms in the State Gazette.


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§ 20. The Radio and Television Act (promulgated in the State Gazette No. 138 of 1998; [modified by] Judgment No. 10 of 1999 of the Constitutional Court - [promulgated in] No. 60 of 1999; amended in No. 81 of 1999, No. 79 of 2000, Nos. 96 and 112 of 2001, Nos. 77 and 120 of 2002, Nos. 99 and 114 of 2003, Nos. 99 and 115 of 2004, Nos. 88, 93 and 105 of 2005, Nos. 21, 34, 70, 80, 105 and 108 of 2006, Nos. 10, 41, 53 and 113 of 2007, No. 110 of 2008, Nos. 14, 37, 42 and 99 of 2009, Nos. 12, 47, 97, 99 and 101 of 2010, Nos. 28, 99 and 105 of 2011, Nos. 38 and 102 of 2012, Nos. 15, 17 and 27 of 2013; [modified by] Judgment No. 8 of 2013 of the Constitutional Court - [promulgated in] No. 91 of 2013; amended in No. 109 of 2013) shall be amended and supplemented as follows:


1. In Article 13, Paragraph (4) shall be repealed.
2. In Article 32, there shall be added an Item 22:


"22. to develop specialised monitoring of the activity of media service providers upon the handling of an election campaign and to provide the said monitoring to the Central Election Commission; the scope and parameters of the specialised monitoring shall be determined under an agreement between the Council for Electronic Media and the Central Election Commission concluded prior to the opening of the election campaign, irrespective of the territorial range of the programme services."


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