(1) Voting shall begin at 7:00 hours and shall end at 21:00 hours. At the premises of the polling station there shall be posted the polling hours in a visible place, namely: the time it starts and the time it closes.

(2) The voters may vote at the polling station where they are registered on the copy of the permanent electoral roll or on the copy of the special electoral roll or at any other polling station, under the terms provided for in Article 13.

(3) The voters’ access to the voting room shall be granted in series corresponding to the number of polling booths. The national voter and the community voter shall present the identity act, the identity document respectively, to the electoral bureau of the polling station. The president of the electoral bureau of the polling station or the member assigned by him shall check the entry on the copy of the permanent electoral roll or on the copy of the special electoral roll, and the voter shall sign at the position corresponding to his/her entry. The president of the electoral bureau of the polling station or the member assigned by him shall hand over to the voter, considering his signature on the copy of the permanent electoral roll or on the copy of the special electoral roll, the ballot paper and stamp marked “VOTED” to be affixed on the ballot paper. In the event that the voter cannot sign the electoral roll, based on solid grounds, ascertained by the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station, the president shall mention it on the roll, confirmed by his signature and by the signature of one more member of the electoral bureau.

(4) In the event that the voter is not on the copy of the permanent electoralroll or on the copy of the special electoral roll, the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station or the member assigned by him shall check whether the provisions of Article 13 are met, and shall prevent the voter from voting if these provisions are not met.

(5) The Romanian citizens who are abroad on the reference date may votefor the election of the members from Romania to the European Parliament only if they cannot find their entries on the table drawn up by the Permanent Electoral Authority which contains the names of the Romanian citizens who exercise their voting right in the elections to the European Parliament from another Member State of the European Union.

(6) On the reference date, the community voters who wish to vote inanother polling station than the one where they are registered on the copy of the special electoral roll shall vote only if the county electoral bureau or the district electoral bureau confirms, upon the telephonic request of the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station, that their names have been entered on the special electoral rolls. The community voters who are abroad on the reference date shall vote for the election of the members from Romania to the European Parliament only if they can find their entries on the table drawn up by the Permanent Electoral Authority which contains the names of the community voters registered on the special electoral rolls.

(7) The voters shall vote individually in closed booths, affixing the stampmarked “VOTED” inside the quadrilateral which contains the list of candidates or the full name of the independent candidate they intend to vote. The stamp marked “VOTED” shall be smaller in size than the quadrilateral.

(8) The presence of any other person except the one who votes in the pollingbooth shall be forbidden. The voter who, on solid grounds, ascertained by the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station, cannot vote alone shall be entitled to call an attendant chosen by him/her to the booth, in order to help him/her. The attendant shall neither be part of the group of observers, nor of the members of the electoral bureau of the polling station.

(9) After voting, the voters shall fold their ballot papers so that the unprintedpage bearing the control stamp remains outside, and they shall introduce them into the ballot box, careful not to unfold them. The wrong folding of the ballot paper shall not entail the nullity thereof.

(10) At the voter’s request, in the event that he/she has incorrectly affixedthe stamp marked “VOTED”, but he/she has not yet introduced the ballot paper into the ballot box, the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station may deliver him/her only once a new ballot paper, by holding and annulling the initial ballot paper and mentioning it in the statement of poll referred to in Article 49.

(11) The stamp handed over for voting shall be handed back to the presidentor to those members of the electoral bureau of the polling station assigned by him, and then the president or the member in question shall affix on the identity paper or document, where appropriate, the stamp marked “VOTED”, and the ballot date or, where appropriate, a sticker stamp marked “VOTED”, and the ballot date.

(12) The president may take the necessary measures, so that the votershall not stay in the polling booth more than necessary.

(13) The candidates and any of the voters are entitled to contest the identityof the person who comes to vote. In this case, the identity may be settled by the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station by any legal means.

(14) In the event the contestation proves to be well-grounded, the presidentof the electoral bureau of the polling station shall prevent from voting the contested voter, shall record the fact in a minute, and notify the situation to the qualified authorities.

(15) The president of the electoral bureau of the polling station maysuspend the voting for well-grounded reasons. The total duration of the suspensions may not exceed one hour. The suspension shall be notified by posting at the door of the polling station, immediately after the event which initiated the suspension.

(16) During the suspension, the ballot boxes, the stamps, ballot papers, andthe other documents or materials of the electoral bureau of the polling station shall remain under permanent watch. During the suspension, more than half of the members of the electoral bureau of the polling station shall not be allowed to leave the polling station room concomitantly. The candidates and the observers who attend the voting shall not be obliged to leave the polling station room during this period.

(17) The president of the electoral bureau of the polling station or, in hisabsence, his deputy shall be obliged to receive and to register any written complaint with regard to the disorders produced during the voting process, submitted by members of the electoral bureau of the polling station, candidates, observers or voters present in the polling station in order to exercise their voting right. In the event the complaint is submitted in duplicate, the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station or his deputy, respectively, shall mention on the copy, which remains at the person who has submitted the complaint, the fact that he has been acknowledged about the respective complaint and its registration number.