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Article 61
 
Article 61. Polling Station
1. A polling station shall be made available to a precinct commission free of charge by the head of the relevant municipality (if the charter of a municipality does not provide for the office of the head of municipality, by a person authorized to do so by the representative body of local self-government), and in cases established by this Federal Law, another federal law, by the commanding officer of a military unit, the captain of a ship, the head of a polar station, the head of a diplomatic or consular mission of the Russian Federation.
2. A polling station shall have a hall with booths or other special places for secret voting, provided with a lighting system and writing utensils other than pencils.
3. Inside or directly in front of the polling station a precinct election commission shall set up a notice-board for displaying the following information about all candidates, lists of candidates, electoral associations, electoral blocs included in the ballot:
?) biographical information about the candidates in the scope established by the commission organizing the election but not less than the scope of biographical information indicated in the ballot;
b) if a candidate, a list of candidates were nominated by an electoral association, electoral bloc, the words "Nominated by the electoral association, electoral bloc" specifying the name of the electoral association, electoral bloc that nominated the candidate, list of candidates;
c) if the candidate is self-nominated, the words "Independent candidate;"
d) information about grounds for registration of candidates, lists of candidates (voter signatures, electoral deposit, other grounds), and in cases specified in Clause 16, Article 38 of this Federal Law, such information is not required to be stated;
e) information about personal income and properties of candidates in the scope established by the election commission organizing the election;
f) information (if any) about the inaccuracy of the data submitted by candidates referred to in Clause 2 and 3, Article 33 of this Federal Law (if such information is available).
4. If a registered candidate, including candidates on the lists of candidates, has a conviction that has not been cancelled or annulled, the notice-board shall display information about the candidate’s convictions.
5. If a registered candidate, including candidates on the lists of candidates, has citizenship of a foreign state, this fact and the name of the relevant foreign state, shall be included in the information displayed on the notice-board.
6. At a referendum, the notice-board shall carry informational materials on referendum questions, including the text of the regulatory act submitted to the referendum.
7. Materials placed on the notice-board shall not contain elements of election propaganda, referendum propaganda.
8. The notice-board shall carry samples of marked ballots that must not contain the names of candidates registered in this electoral district, names of electoral associations, electoral blocs participating in this election, samples of ballots for voting at the referendum that must show all options for marking the ballot (ballots).
9. At the polling station, there shall be an enlarged form of the protocol of vote returns where vote returns shall be entered as they are established. Such enlarged form of the protocol of vote returns shall be posted before the commencement of voting so that it is within the field of vision of members of a precinct election commission, observers, at a distance at which they can read the information contained therein.
10. Inside the polling station there shall be stationary ballot boxes. The functions of stationary ballot boxes may be performed by vote-counting machines, including programmed technical complexes for processing of ballots.
11. The polling station shall be fitted out so that the places where ballots are issued, places for secret voting, and ballot boxes, technical equipment for vote counting remains in the field of vision of members of the precinct commission and the observers.