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Article 42
 

§ 1. Before voting begins the precinct election commission checks to see if the ballot box is empty, then closes the ballot box and seals it with a seal. The committee verifies that there is a list of voters and the number of ballots needed tocarried out voting, as well as whether in the polling station is a sufficient number of easely accessible areas to ensure the secrecy of voting.


§ 2. Once the ballot box is sealed it may not be opened until the end of voting.


§ 3. From the moment of commencement of voting until the end of voting at least 2/3 of the precinct election commission’s full composition must be present concurrently in the polling station, including its chairman or his deputy.


§ 4. (repealed)


§5. From the actions referred to in § 1 taken by the precinct election commission for matters of conducting the voting until the commencement of voting and from the closing of the polling station to the signing of the protocol referred to in art. 75 § 1, actions taken by the precinct election commission for matters of conducting the voting and the precinct election commission for determining the results of voting may be registered by agents using their own recording devices.


§ 6. Materials containing the registered actions referred to in § 5, at the request of an agent registering such actions, may be qualified as election documents within the meaning of art. 8.