(1) The ballot papers, control stamps and stamps marked “VOTAT”, the forms for the conclusion of the statements of poll, the copies of the electoral rolls, the tables provided for in Article 9, and the other materials required for the conduct of the electoral process shall be taken over by the prefect, together with the president of the county electoral bureau or of the electoral bureau of the Bucharest Municipality district, on a minutes basis, and shall be kept in special rooms, locked and sealed. These materials shall be distributed, by the mayors, to the presidents of the electoral bureaux of the polling stations, on a minutes basis, two days at the latest before the elections. For the polling stations abroad, the taking over and the distribution of these materials shall be carried out, on a minutes basis, by the president of the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

(2) The delivery and the distribution of the ballot papers shall be done in sealed packages of 1oo pieces each or multiple of 1oo pieces, on a minutes basis.

(3) On the day preceding the elections, at the premises of each polling station there shall be posted a ballot paper, endorsed and annulled, as the case may be, by the president of the county electoral bureau, of the electoral bureau of the Bucharest Municipality district or of the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad.