Role of electoral commissions.

An electoral commission shall ensure that unlawful campaigning or interference and other activities designed to disrupt or hinder the conduct of the poll do not proceed at the polling station and in the immediate vicinity. [After receiving the recommendations of the National Electoral Commission, the Minister shall issue a regulation on unlawful campaigning in the vicinity of polling stations, election interference and other activities disrupting or hindering the polling process.] ¹⁾ 

The electoral commission shall sit at a table in the polling room while the voting session is in progress. At no time may more than one member of the electoral commission leave the room, and while leaving the room commission members must entrust their duties to another member of the commission unless an alternate member is available. 

After receiving the proposal of the National Electoral Commission, the Minister shall issue a regulation²⁾ governing the receipt and handling by electoral commissions of ballots cast in early voting, ballot boxes, resources that shall be available at polling stations and in polling booths, electoral commissions’ procedures for the reconciliation of votes and other matters relating to voting during polling sessions.    

¹⁾Act No. 62/2023, Article 28²⁾Regulation No. 388/2022. Regulation No. 431/2022.