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Article 89
 

Should elections in a polling section be impossible on the prescribed election day due to bad weather or for other uncontrollable circumstances, the presiding election board shall, within one week, announce a new date for polling. Notice of polling shall be advertised in the manner customary there for publishing official notices.

A presiding election board may suspend elections in a polling section after they have commenced if it deems that uncontrollable circumstances, such as bad weather, prevent continuation of polling and all members of the election board agree on the suspension. If elections have been suspended, polling must be arranged anew in the manner prescribed in the first paragraph of this Article.

Once elections have been suspended, the procedure provided for in Article 71 shall be followed mutatis mutandis and, in addition, the register of electors and the copies of it used by the election board shall be placed with other election docu-mentation in the bag which is sealed. Once polling begins on the subsequent election day, the election board shall open the sealed bag and the envelopes it contains in the presence of candidates or their agents. If a candidate or his agent is not present the election board shall select a respected person to serve as agent for the candidate. If this provision cannot be satisfied the seal may, however, be broken, the envelopes opened and the elections commence once one hour has passed from the opening of the polls. The provisions of Chapter IX of this Act shall apply mutatis mutandis to a subsequent election day.

Should voting returns from a polling section not be delivered to the presiding election board, although the elections have taken place, the presiding election board shall have new elections held in the polling section in all respects in the same manner as prescribed above.