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Article 49
 

(1) The computer operators provide, under the conditions set by decision of the Permanent Electoral Authority, the continuous video-audio recording of the operations performed by the members of the electoral bureaux of the polling stations for ballot counting.


(2) The president of the electoral bureau of the polling station provides the electronic submission to the Central Electoral Bureau of the photo of the minutes of the recording of the voting results.


(3) The recordings provided by paragraph (1) and the photos of the minutes provided by paragraph (2) shall be made on the voting premises by means of the computer terminals provided by the Special Telecommunications Service.


(4) The Special Telecommunications Service verifies the existence of the recordings provided by paragraph (1), draws up the aspects found in the minutes on receiving the computer terminals, on the occasion of receiving thereof from the computer operators and transfers them into a storage media. The video-audio recordings shall be kept for 12 months after the closing of the electoral period, according to the law.


(5) The Special Telecommunications Service shall provide the competent authorities for finding electoral contraventions and frauds or pursuing offences, upon their request, with copies of the video-audio recordings provided by paragraph (1).