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Article 58
 

Arrangement of a polling station


1. The state authorities and local self-government bodies shall provide the premises and inventory required for the preparation and the conduct of elections to electoral commissions for temporary use free of charge. Furthermore, the above bodies shall cover the utility costs of the premises provided.


1.1. If an appropriate building is available, the building for an election precinct shall be accessible for every voter, and where such building is not available, the building allocated for the election precinct shall, where possible, be adapted by the allocating body for the polling day to ensure accessibility for every voter.


2. A PEC may not be established and a polling place may not be allocated in the same premises where the following are located:


a) a party;
b) state authorities or local self-government bodies, except when there are no other appropriate premises within the territory of an electoral precinct for the conduct of polling according to this Law; a DEC shall make an appropriate decision;
c) divisions of the police or the State Security Service of Georgia (except for PECs formed in exceptional cases).


2.1. A party or the headquarters of a party/electoral bloc/initiative group of voters may not be located in the building where the election commission is located.


3. (Deleted – 7.3.2014, No 2093).


4. At a polling station:


a) polling booths shall be set up so as to ensure that voters can complete ballot papers in secret. At least one booth with one pen shall be provided for every 500 voters;
b) places shall be allocated for registration of voters and special envelopes;
c) a transparent ballot box shall be installed in a visible place;
d) public versions of lists of voters, party lists, lists of candidates, procedures for filling out a ballot paper established by the CEC, as well as an extract from this Law defining the cases when a ballot paper is deemed invalid, and demonstration protocol(s) of polling results shall be posted in a visible place.


5. If any electoral subject entered into a ballot paper no longer runs in elections, a notice thereof shall be posted in a visible place both at the polling place and in the voting booth (room).


6. In order to ensure that polling is secret, photo and video filming in a polling booth shall be prohibited.