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Article 32
 

(1) The State Electoral Commission shall: 


-    take care of the legal preparation and conduct of the referendum at state level; 


-    appoint a president, members and their deputies in the municipal electoral commissions; 


-    undertake technical preparations for conducting the referendum at state level; 


-    prescribe the forms for conducting the referendum at state level and publish them in the “Official Gazette of the Republic of Macedonia”; 


-    determine the form, size, colour and serial numbers of the ballot; 


-    hand over the voting material to and receive it from the municipal electoral commissions; 


-    determine unified standards for the voting material; 


-    inform the citizens regarding the manner and technique of voting and the manner of fulfilment of the electoral right; 


-    provide material conditions for conducting the referendum at state level; 


-    determine the manner of handling and keeping the voting material; 


-    organize the printing of the voting material; 


-    submit report to the Assembly regarding the conducted referendum at state level within three days from the day of its conduct; 


-  adopt a Rulebook and Guidelines on compensation for the bodies for conducting the referendum at state level and submit financial report to the Assembly; 


-    prescribe the type of device to mark and check for marks the persons who have already voted (UV lamp, spray and graphite pad); 


-    form assistant bodies for performing organizational and technical works; 


-    announce the descriptions of the electoral places in the daily press; 


-    perform the works determined by the Law on Electoral List for Conducting the Referendum at State Level; 


-    decide upon complaints; 


-    determine and announce the result from the referendum at state level and 


-    perform other works as determined by law.


(2) The work of the State Electoral Commission shall be public.