(1) The day before the voting day, the electoral bureaux of the polling stations throughout the country shall receive, based on the minutes, the following:

a) a copy of the permanent electoral roll;

b) the ballot papers;

c) the control stamp;

d) the stamps marked ‘VOTAT’;

e) the forms for the completion of the minutes for the recording of the voting results;

f) the forms of the additional electoral roll and of the excerpt of the electoral rolls;

g) the forms that are necessary for the recording of the cases signalled by the Voter turnout monitoring system to prevent illegal voting;

h) other materials set forth by decision of the Permanent Electoral Authority;

i) a ballot paper annulled by the president of the county electoral bureau, of the district of the Bucharest municipality or of the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad, as the case may be, which they shall post at the polling station’s headquarters.

(2) The handing over of the materials provided in paragraph (1) shall be assured by mayors.

(3) The day before the first day of the voting, the electoral bureaux of the polling stations abroad receive the materials provided in paragraph (1), excepting those from point a) and f), through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

(4) The electoral bureaux of the polling stations shall meet the following tasks:

a) provide the good conduct of the voting;

b) verify, by electronic means, the fulfilment of the conditions provided by law for the exercise of the right to vote according to the methodology set forth by decision of the Permanent Electoral Authority;

c) number the votes and record the results of the voting in the minutes provided in Article 49 (1); may decide the recounting of the votes, at any member’s request, before the recording of the results thereof in the minutes provided in Article 49 (1);

d) verify, by electronic means, the correlations from the minutes of recording the voting results, according to the methodology set forth by decision of the Permanent Electoral Authority;

e) solve the contestations referring to their own activity;

f) fulfil any other attributions settled according to the present law.

(5) The president of the electoral bureau of the polling station takes all the measures in order to maintain the order within the voting premises and around them.

(6) The members of the electoral bureaux of the polling stations perform under the coordination of the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station the necessary operations for the exercise of the right to vote by the electors who come to the ballot box, as well as for the registration and centralisation of the voting results.

(7) The electoral bureaux of the polling stations shall hand over, on a basis of the minutes, to the county electoral bureaux or, as the case may be, to the electoral bureaux of the districts of the Bucharest municipality, the minutes containing the voting results, the null ballot papers and those contested, along with the statements of defence, contestations, and materials to which these refer to, as well as the files comprising the electoral rolls used in the polling station, filed by categories of lists; the electoral bureaux of the abroad polling stations hand over the minutes containing the voting results, the null ballot papers and those contested, along with the statements of defence, contestations and materials of which these refer to, to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

(8) The electoral bureaux of the polling stations shall hand over separately, on the basis of the minutes, to the county electoral bureaux or, as the case may be, to the electoral bureaux of the districts of the Bucharest municipality, the ballot papers used and non-contested, the annulled ballot papers, the stamps and the other materials utilized during the voting. The electoral bureaux of the abroad polling stations shall hand over these materials to the diplomatic representation, which, within 3 months of the publishing of the election results in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, shall hand them over to be melted by the specialized economic operators.

(9) The electoral bureaux of the polling stations shall fulfil any other attributions that are incumbent to them according to law.

(10) The prefects take all the necessary measures in order to provide the transportation of the materials provided in paragraph (1) inside the voting premises, as well as the transportation of the materials provided in paragraphs (7) and (8) from the inside the voting premises to the headquarters of the county electoral bureau or of the electoral bureau of the district of the Bucharest municipality, as the case may be.

(11) In the case of the abroad polling stations, after receiving them, the materials provided in paragraph (3) shall be sealed by the presidents of the electoral bureaux of the polling stations and shall be kept, until their transport to the voting premises, in one place, provided by the head of the diplomatic representation of the respective state.

(12) The electoral bureaux and the electoral bureaux of the districts of the Bucharest municipality have the obligation to establish, consulting the prefects, the calendar of the operations provided in paragraphs (1), (7) and (8), in order to provide their optimal accomplishment. In the case of the polling stations abroad, the calendar of the operations provided in paragraphs (1), (7) and (8), is established by the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad consulting the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.