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Article 24
 

(1) Two days before election date, the electoral bureaux of the polling stations shall receive, on the basis of a written report from the county electoral bureaux or from the electoral bureaux of the districts of Bucharest Municipality, through the agency of the mayors, the following:


a) two copies of the permanent electoral rolls, that include the voters in the polling station; one copy shall be put at the disposal of the voters for consultation, and one copy shall be used on election date;


b) the ballot papers, the control stamp, and the stamp marked “VOTED”;


c) the forms of the tables stipulated under Art. 9, the forms for the conclusion of the statements of the vote, other printed forms and materials required for the conduct of the electoral process, as well as a ballot paper that was rejected, as the case may be, by the president of the county electoral bureau, of the electoral bureau of the district of Bucharest Municipality respectively, and that shall be posted in a visible place at the polling station on the eve of the election.


(2) On receipt, the materials provided for in paragraph (1) a)- c) shall be sealed by the presidents of the electoral bureaux of the polling stations, and shall be kept under guard, until they are transported on the premises of the polling stations, in a single place only , provided by the mayor of the administrative-territorial unit in which these stations operate.


(3) The electoral bureaux of the polling stations abroad shall receive, on the basis of a written report, from the electoral bureau of the polling stations abroad, through the agency of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the ballot papers, the control stamp, the stamps marked “VOTED”, the forms of the tables stipulated under Art. 9 paragraph (1), the forms for the conclusion of the statements of the vote, other printed forms and materials required for the conduct of the electoral process, as well as a ballot paper that was rejected by the president of the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad, and that shall be posted in a visible place at the polling station on the eve of the election. On receipt, all these shall be sealed by the presidents of the electoral bureaux of the polling stations, and shall be kept, until they are transported on the premises of the polling stations, in a single place only , provided by the chief of the diplomatic representation office in the respective state.


(4) The electoral bureaux of the polling stations shall discharge the following duties:


a) they shall ensure the good organization and conduct of the electoral operations falling under their territorial jurisdiction;


b) they shall solve the objections referring to their own activity, and the contestations regarding the voting process;


b-1) shall provide, on the election date, information concerning voter turnout, according to a schedule established by the Central Electoral Bureau.


c) they shall count the votes, and shall record the results in the statement of the vote provided for in Art. 49 paragraph (1); they may decide the recounting of the votes, at the request of any member, before the results are recorded in the statement of the vote provided for in Art. 49 paragraph (1);


d) they shall discharge any other duties established by this law or by decisions and resolutions issued by the hierarchically superior electoral bureaux.


(5) After the voting is over and the vote results have been recorded, electoral bureaux of the polling stations shall carry out the following activities:


a) they shall hand over to the county electoral bureaux or, as the case may be, to the electoral bureau of the district the following: the statements of the vote with the vote results, the spoiled and the contested ballot papers, together with the objections, the contestations and the materials referring to these statements, which fall under the jurisdiction of the above mentioned bureaux, the files containing the copies of the permanent electoral rolls and the tables used in the polling station, as well as the statements on one’s own account stipulated under Art. 44 paragraph (4), as the case may be; the electoral bureaux of the polling stations abroad shall hand over, through the agency of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad or, in case the latter has ceased its activity, to the Bucharest Court of Law the statements of the vote with the vote results, the spoiled and the contested ballot papers, together with the objections, the contestations and the materials referring to these statements, and shall hand over to the Permanent Electoral Authority, through the agency of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the files containing the tables used in the polling stations abroad, as well as the statements on one’s own account stipulated under Art. 44 paragraph (5);


b) they shall hand over, on the basis of a written report, to the representative of the court of law in the territorial jurisdiction of which they are based, and who is on the premises of the county electoral bureau or, as the case may be, on the premises of the electoral bureau of the district of Bucharest Municipality, the ballot papers which were used and uncontested, as well as the rejected ones, the stamps and the other materials required in the voting conduct; the electoral bureaux of the polling stations abroad shall pass on these materials to the diplomatic representation offices, which, within 3 months of the publication of the vote results in the Official Journal of Romania, Part I, shall hand them over with a view to having them melted by specialized economic services.


(6) In the discharge of its duties, the electoral bureau of the polling station shall adopt decisions. Decisions shall be mandatory for all the parties involved and shall be made public by posting in a visible place on the premises of the electoral bureau of the polling station.