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Article 20
 

The electoral bureaux of the polling stations shall have the following attributions:


a) to receive from the territorial structures of the ational Centre for Database Management of the People’s Record within the Ministry of the Interior and Administrative Reform, through mayors, based on a minute, 3 days prior to the election day, two copies of the permanent electoral rolls including the electors in the polling station. One copy shall be placed at the disposal of the electors for consultation, and one copy shall be used on the election day;


b) to receive from the mayors, on the basis of a minute, the ballot papers, the control stamp and the stamps with the specification “VOTED”, the forms for the conclusion of the minutes, and other materials necessary for the conduct of the electoral process, as well as two ballot papers, one for the election to the Chamber of Deputies and one for the election to the Senate, annulled by the president of the electoral bureau of constituency, which they shall post up in a prominent place, on the day prior to the election day; the electoral bureaux of the polling stations near the diplomatic missions and consular offices shall receive these materials through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs;


c) to lead the voting operations, to take all measures of order both inside the premises of the polling station and around it;


d) to count the votes and register the election results;


e) to solve the objections referring to their own activity;


f) to submit to the electoral bureaux of constituency or the district electoral office the minutes including the election result, the null and contested ballot papers, along with the contestations submitted and the materials they refer to, as well as the electoral rolls used within the polling station, filed on types of rolls; the electoral bureaux of the polling stations near the diplomatic missions and consular offices shall hand over these materials to the electoral bureau of constituency for the Romanians with the domicile outside the country, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs;


g) to hand over, based on a minute, to the court under the jurisdiction of which their headquarters falls, the ballot papers used and uncontested, as well as those annulled, the stamps and the other materials used in the conduct of the vote; the electoral bureaux of the polling stations near the diplomatic missions and consular offices shall hand over these materials to the Tribunal of Bucharest, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs;


h) to issue one copy of each minute, certified by the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station for each representative of the political parties, political alliances, electoral alliances and organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities in the structure of the bureau;


i) to issue, at the request of both the observers of the non-governmental organisations, and the representatives of the press accredited to the respective polling stations, through the president of the polling station, one copy of each minute that registers the election result in the respective polling station;


j) to supply, on the election day, data on the presence of the population to vote, according to a programme set by the Central Electoral Bureau.