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Article 14(7)
 

(1) The electoral bureaux of the polling stations shall have the following duties:


a) they shall receive from the mayors, on the basis of a minute, two copies of the permanent electoral rolls, and two copies of the special electoral rolls, which include the voters from the polling station; a sample for each type of roll shall be placed at the electors’ disposal for consultation, and another sample shall be used on the reference date;


b) they shall receive from the mayors, on the basis of a statement report, the ballot papers, the control stamps and the stamps with the specification “VOTED”, the 24 forms for the conclusion of statements of poll, other printed materials required for the conduct of the electoral process, as well as a ballot paper rejected by the president of the county electoral bureau or, where appropriate, of the district electoral bureau of the Bucharest Municipality, or of the electoral bureau of the polling stations abroad; this ballot paper shall be posted in a visible place on the day which precedes the elections; the electoral bureaux of the polling stations abroad shall receive this material through the agency of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs;


c) they shall run all the voting operations, and take all the necessary steps for maintaining order both inside and outside the polling station;


d) they shall count the votes and record the voting results;


e) they shall settle the objections referring to their own activity;


f) they shall hand over to the county electoral bureaux or, where appropriate, to the district electoral bureau the statements of poll containing the voting results, the ballot papers used and the contested ones, together with the objections, contestations, and the matter to which they refer, as well as the electoral rolls used at the polling station, filed on type of roll; the electoral bureaux of the polling stations abroad shall submit this material, through the agency of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad or to the Bucharest Tribunal, if the said electoral bureau has ceased its activity;


g) they shall hand over, on a statement of poll basis, to the representative of the court of law under whose jurisdiction their premises fall, and who is based at the seat of the county electoral bureau or, where appropriate, at the district electoral bureau, the ballot papers used and uncontested, as well as the nullified ballot papers, the electoral stamps, and other material required in the voting process; the polling stations abroad shall hand over the said material to the diplomatic missions that shall submit and see to its destruction by specialised companies within 3 months of the publication of the election results in the Official Gazette, Part I;


h) on the reference date they shall provide information with regard to the presence of population at the poll, in compliance with a calendar settled by the Central Electoral Bureau.


(2) The electoral bureaux of the polling stations shall carry out any other duties in accordance with the law.


(3) Following the handing over, the material referred to in Article 14 7 (1) a) and b) shall be sealed by the presidents of the electoral bureaux, and shall be kept on watch until their transportation to the locals of the polling stations in one place only provided by the mayor of the administrative –territorial unit where they carry out their activity. As for the polling stations abroad, after reception, the material referred to in point b) shall be sealed by the presidents of the electoral bureaux of the polling stations, and shall be kept until their transportation to the locals of the polling stations in one place only provided by the chief of the diplomatic mission in the respective state.*


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