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(1) Not later than when an election has been called shall the local council elect, for each polling district, not less than five and not more than nine polling supervisors to conduct the voting procedure and the vote count at the polling station.


(2) Polling supervisors are elected by proportional representation in one step from among all voters residing in the municipality.


(3) A voter standing as a candidate in the election is eligible as a polling supervisor.


(4) From among the polling supervisors the local council elects a chair for each polling district. The chairmen are elected by proportional representation.


(5) The polling supervisors shall keep a poll book in which they enter all material information about the voting in the polling district and the result thereof. The Minister of Social Affairs and the Interior shall lay down the rules governing the content and design of the poll books.


(6) The chair of the polling supervisors shall ensure that a sufficient number of polling supervisors are always present at the polling station immediately prior to and during the election process, see section 46, and during the subsequent vote counting process, see section 68(1), to ensure a proper execution of the election and vote counting process. However, a majority of the appointed polling supervisors shall always be present at the polling station during the election process and the subsequent vote counting process. The polling supervisors shall obey the directions of the chair of the polling supervisors. All polling supervisors shall be present when the poll book is signed, see the first sentence of section 70.