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Article 99
 

1. Any elector registered in the polling station or any of the delegates of the lists may raise doubts and submit a written complaint, a protest or a counter-protest regarding the electoral operations of the same polling station, and file it together with the appropriate documents.


2. The electoral office cannot refuse to accept complaints, protests or counter-protests. It must initial them and attach them to the minutes.


3. The complaints, protests and counter-protests must be decided upon by the electoral office, which may decide at the end of the voting, should it be deemed not to affect the normal progress of the voting.


4. All decisions made by the electoral office will by based on absolute majority of the members present and must be duly grounded. The chief electoral officer will have the casting vote in the event of a tie.