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Article 93
 

Prohibition on the presence of non-electors


1 - The presiding officer of the electoral station must order any citizens who cannot vote there to leave the location where it is operating, save if they are candidates or agents or delegates for lists.
2 - Media agents are excepted from this principle, and may go to polling stations and sections in order to obtain images or other news items.
3 - Media agents must:
a) Before they begin their work, identify themselves to the board of officers by showing a document confirming their profession and a credential from the media body they represent;
b) Not take images, or come close in any way to the polling booths to an extent that might compromise the secret nature of the voting process;
c) Inside the polling station or within a distance of five hundred metres outside it, not obtain other news items that might violate voting secrecy;
d) In general terms, not disturb the act of voting.
4 - The images and other news items obtained in accordance with the previous paragraph may only be transmitted once all polling stations and sections have closed.