(1) The vote shall start at 7.00 a.m. and shall take place until 9.00 p.m., when the polling station is closed. The interval during which the electoral process is carried out shall be posted up on the door of the polling station.

(2) If the elector, for grounded reasons, found by the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station, is not able to sign in the electoral roll, the specification shall be made in the list, with the confirmation, based on signature, of a member of the electoral bureau.

(3) The access of the electors in the voting room shall be made in series corresponding to the number of booths. Each elector shall present the voting card and the identity paper to the electoral bureau of the polling station. The electoral bureau of the polling station shall check if the elector is registered in the copy of the permanent electoral roll, and after that the elector shall sign in the roll within the rubric meant for him. Based on the signature in the copy of the permanent electoral roll, the president or a member of the electoral bureau of the polling station shall give the ballot paper and the stamp with the specification “VOTED” to the elector, who will lay the stamp on the ballot paper. If an elector comes to the poll with the duplicate of the voting card, the electoral bureau of the polling station shall mention this fact in the copy of the permanent electoral roll.

(4) The electors who collect their voting card from the polling station shall sign for its receipt in the minute drawn up upon the delivery, by the community public service for personal records, of the uncollected voting cards.

(5) The electors who prove by the identity card that they have the domicile in the area distributed to the respective polling station, and have been omitted from the copy of the permanent electoral roll, may vote at the respective polling station only based on the voting card and identity paper, with them being registered in the additional electoral roll.

(6) The electors shall vote in separate closed booths, by laying the stamp with the specification “VOTED” inside the quadrilateral comprising the full name of the candidate they vote for.

(7) The stamp with the specification “VOTED” must have a smaller size than the quadrilateral.

(8) After they cast their vote, the electors shall fold the ballot papers in such a way that the unprinted page bearing the control stamp remain outside, and they will introduce them in the ballot box, making sure they do not open.

(9) The inadequate folding of the ballot paper shall not entail its nullity.

(10) At the elector’s request, in the case when he has laid the stamp with the specification “VOTED” incorrectly, but he has not introduced the ballot paper in the box, the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station may issue, only once, a new ballot paper for him, holding back and annulling the initial ballot paper and making the adequate specification in the minute of the voting operation.

(11) The stamp entrusted for vote shall be returned to the president or to the members of the electoral bureau of the polling station designated by the president, after which the president or the respective member will lay it on the voting card in the spot corresponding to the number of ballot.

(12) The president may take measures so that an elector does not spend unjustified time in the ballot booth.

(13) Repealed.

(14) The candidates and any other elector shall have the right to contest the identity of the person coming to the poll. In this case, the identity shall be set by the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station by any legal means.

(15) If the contestation is grounded, the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station shall stop the contested elector from voting, shall write down the fact in a minute and shall inform the competent authorities on this situation.

(16) The president of the electoral bureau of the polling station may interrupt the vote for grounded reasons.

(17) The total duration of the interruptions may not exceed one hour. The interruption shall be announced by posting up the information on the door of the premises of the polling station immediately after the event took place and the interruption started.

(18) During the interruption, the ballot boxes, stamps, ballot papers and the other documents and materials of the electoral bureau of the polling station shall remain under permanent watch. During the interruption they shall not allow for more than half of the members of the electoral bureau of the polling station to leave the voting room at the same time.

(19) The candidates and the authorised persons who are present at the vote under the terms of the present title may not be obliged to leave the voting room during this time.

(20) The presence of any person in the ballot booths, save the one who votes, shall be forbidden.

(21) The elector who, for grounded reasons, found by the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station, is not capable to vote by himself shall have the right to call a companion he chooses in the booth in order to get help. This companion may not be chosen from among the observers or members of the electoral bureau of the polling station.

(22) The president of the electoral bureau of the polling station or, in his absence, his deputy shall be obliged to receive and register any petition regarding irregularities occurred during the voting process, submitted by members of the electoral bureau of the polling station, candidates, authorised observers, authorised representatives of the written press, radio or television, Romanian and foreign, or electors present in the polling station for the exercise of the right to vote. If the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station, or his deputy respectively, receives the petition in two copies, he shall write down, on the copy remaining with the person who forwards the petition, the fact that he has taken knowledge of the respective petition and its registration number.

(22-1) For the electors who cannot be transported on grounds of illness or invalidity, the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station may approve, following their written request, accompanied of the copy of medical documents or other official documents attesting the fact that the respective persons cannot be transported, that a team formed of at least 2 members of the electoral bureau goes, with a special ballot box and with the material needed for the vote – stamp with the specification “VOTED” and ballot papers – to the place where the elector is, in order to carry out the vote. Under the jurisdiction of a polling station, a single special ballot box shall be used. The special ballot box may be crossed out only under the jurisdiction allocated for the respective polling station.

(22-2) In the cases stipulated in paragraph (22-1) the vote shall only be carried out based on an excerpt, personally drawn up by the president of the electoral bureau, of the copy of the permanent electoral roll or of the additional electoral roll existing at the respective polling station, signed and stamped by the president with the control stamp of the polling station. The persons included in these excerpts must be crossed out from the other rolls existing at the station.

(22-3) The means of vote provided for in paragraph (22-1) and (22-2) may only be used by the persons having the domicile under the jurisdiction of the respective polling station, and only if the ballot is ensured to remain secret.

(23) At 9.00 p.m. the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station shall declare the close of poll and order the closing of the polling station.

(24) The persons who are still in the voting room at 9.00 p.m. shall be allowed to exercise their right to vote.

(25) In the situation stipulated in paragraph (24), the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station shall have the obligation to inform the electoral bureau or office operating at the immediately superior level about the decision to prolong the duration of the vote, as soon as such decision is adopted, as well as about the closing of the polling station when the period of prolongation ends, as soon as this happens.

(26) The electoral bureaux and offices that receive information according to the provisions of paragraph (25) shall have the obligation to send the respective information to the electoral bodies operating at the immediately superior levels until all information are centralised at the Central Electoral Bureau.