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Article 51A
 

Election bureaus


(Ek: 8/4/2010-5980/3 art.)


Beginning with the opening day of elections, political parties and individual candidates may open electoral bureaus in order to execute their electoral works in electoral environment where they will attend elections.  But buildings and facilities that belong to state and public institutions and their affiliates, buildings of joint ventures where state is direct or indirect partner, vocational institutions that have public characteristics, manufacturers unions, cooperative unions, labor unions and banks can not be used for this purpose. 


 Electoral bureaus are considered opened by sending notification to the highest administrative senior of the district within the time period from beginning of electoral process to the beginning date of propaganda or after beginning of propaganda by notifying District Election Board including the address of the bureau and contact information of at least one of the responsible. Lists of electoral bureaus opened with notification method, are sent to District Election Boards by the administrative officer with the highest rank within the borders of district. 


Authorized personnel of bureaus which do not meet the conditions for opening, are given three days of extra time to complete the deficiencies. Bureaus, that are unable to meet such conditions, are closed by senior administrative officer until such conditions are met.  


Notwithstanding other electoral activities, visual and verbal propaganda can be undertaken in electoral bureaus. But voiced activities that will be undertaken in bureaus should follow the rules and procedures of legislations on ambient noise. 


Electoral bureaus may exercise activities from 09.00 till 23.00.