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Article 23
 

1st Article of Law 2234, amended on 17 May 1979.) The memberships of Polling Station Committees are determined as follows:


The chairman of the District Electoral Board asks five parties which have organizational bodies and have run for the elections and gathered most of the votes in the last general deputy elections in that district, to submit the names of one regular and one substitute member for each ballot box within five days.
In case the number of ballot box board members defined as such is less than five, the remaining membership positions are filled in the same way, from equally qualified other political parties according to the number of votes they have gathered.


In case the votes are equal the names are drawn by lot.


In case all five regular and five substitute members are not determined although the provisions above have been applied, the names are drawn by lot amongst other parties participated in the election and which have organizational bodies in that district. According to the order of the names drawn, persons defined with the method explained above by the political parties become members of the Polling Station Committee.


(Amended on 13/3/2018 in accordance with Article 4 of Law 7102) The president of the district election board will first determine the remaining one principal and one substitute member from the list which includes the ones who have not been chosen as President of the Polling Station Committee and has been determined according to the Article 22 paragraph 1 by drawing lots of civil servants as twice amount of the necessary number of Polling Station Committee members. Those who does not have any obstacles will be determined as the principal and reserve member of the Polling Station Committee within the above mentioned civil servants.


The substitute member is called for replacement in case his regular, defined according to the paragraphs above is not present for mission.


The names for Polling Station Committee memberships and chairman are drawn before the District Electoral Board, by the chairman of the board.


In case it is not possible to fill all the membership positions as such, the chairman of the District Electoral Board appoints some inhabitants of that district, who are considered eligible for an assignment for the Polling Station Committee.