(1) Once the Electoral Board has completed its duties, the Electoral Officer shall pack in separate parcels
1. the ballot papers, sorted into bundles for each candidate, a bundle for ballot papers on which only the second vote has been cast and a bundle of unmarked ballot papers,
2. the voting envelopes surrendered empty,
the polling cards collected,
if these items are not appended to the election record, shall close and seal the individual parcels, mark them with a note of their contents and hand them over to the local authority of the commune. Until they are handed over to the local authority, the Electoral Officer must ensure that the documents listed in items 1 to 3 above are not accessible to unauthorized persons.
(2) The local authority of the commune shall store the parcels until authorization is issued for the destruction of electoral documents (Article 90). It must ensure that the parcels are not accessible to unauthorized persons.
(3) The Electoral Officer shall return to the local authority of the commune the documents and equipment made available to him or her under Article 49 as well as the voters' notices collected. The local authority shall retain the voting envelopes for future elections.
(4) The local authority must submit the documents described in Paragraph 1 to the District Returning Officer on demand. If only parts of a parcel are required, the local authority shall break open the parcel in the presence of two witnesses, remove the part demanded and re-seal the parcel. A record of the process shall be drawn up and signed by all participants.
