Maintaining order at the polling station

The polling board shall maintain order at the polling station.

If the order at the polling station is disturbed, the polling board may suspend the voting until the order is restored.

The order at the polling station shall be deemed disturbed, in particular, when at the polling station or directly in front of the polling station:

1) Individuals who do not have any rights or duties related to the conduct of elections linger;

2) Developments at the polling station are filmed or photographed without authorization;

3) Information on developments at the polling station, including, in particular, on who turned out and who did not, are communicated out using mobile phones or other means of communication;

4) Lists of voters who turned out or did not turn out are compiled, apart of the official records in the excerpt from the electoral roll;

5) Symbols of political parties, submitters of proclaimed electoral list, as well as other electoral propaganda material are displayed. Polling board members who are in charge of the excerpt from the electoral roll may write down tally marks on a separate piece of paper for each voter who arrived at the polling station to vote and thus keep records of turnout. If turnout records are kept at a certain polling station, data on the number of voters who have voted must be available to all polling board members. A polling station, in terms of the provisions of this Law which regulate the maintenance of order at a polling station, shall mean a room where voting takes place, and if there are several rooms for voting in one facility, the entire facility shall be deemed a polling station.