- (1) The county electoral bureaux and the electoral bureaux of Bucharest Municipality district shall have the following duties: 

a) they shall pursue and ensure the unitary implementation and the observance of this law’s provisions by all the authorities, institutions and organisms with duties in electoral matters within the county or Bucharest Municipality district; they shall ensure, together with the prefects, the instruction of presidents of the electoral bureaux of the polling stations, as well as of their deputies;

b) they shall settle objections referring to its own activity and petitions regarding the proceedings of the electoral bureaux of the polling stations; contestations shall be settled by decisions which are binding for the electoral bureau in question, as well as for the public authorities and institutions to which they refer, under the sanctions of this law;

c) they shall see to the organisation of the polling stations in due time; they shall distribute, on the basis of a minute, together with the mayors, to the electoral bureaux of the polling stations the ballot papers, the control stamps, the stamps with the specification “VOTED”, as well as other material required in the electoral process.

d) on the basis of the table notified by the Permanent Electoral Authority, which includes the Community voters, whose names have been entered on the special electoral rolls, they shall confirm upon request from the electoral bureaux of the polling stations within their territorial jurisdiction that the Community voters who come to the poll according to Article 92 are entered on the special electoral rolls;

e) they shall totalize the number of validly cast ballots for each list of candidates and for each independent candidate and shall notify the results to the Central Electoral Bureau in order to establish the electoral threshold;

f) they shall centralize the results of the vote counting for the county or for the Bucharest Municipality district where they operate and shall submit to the Central Electoral Bureau the statement of poll referred to in Article 198 , the statements of poll received from the electoral bureaux of the polling stations, as well as all the objections and contestations;

g) they shall send to the county tribunals, or to the Bucharest Tribunal, on a statement of poll basis the null and the contested ballot papers, the electoral lists used in the framework of the polling stations, as well as the other documents and materials, which shall not be delivered to the Central Electoral Bureau.

(2) The county electoral bureaux or the electoral bureaux of Bucharest Municipality district shall carry out any other duties in compliance with this law.

(3) The decisions of the county electoral bureau or of the electoral bureau of Bucharest Municipality district shall be made public by posting or by any other means of publicity.

(4) Should there be found discrepancies between the data recorded in the minutes received from the electoral bureaux of the polling stations, the county electoral bureau or the electoral bureau of Bucharest Municipality district shall ask the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station to operate the necessary rectifications, which shall be certified by signature and by affixing the control stamp of the polling station.*

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*Introduced by G.E.O. no. 1/2007 and amended by G.E.O. no. 11/2009.