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Article 110
 

(1) The Permanent Electoral Authority, with the support of the Special Telecommunications Service and the National Institute of Statistics, shall ensure the implementation and management of the Computer system for monitoring turnout and preventing illegal voting, based on the data and information in the Electoral Register and the Register of polling stations.


(2) The methodology concerning the functioning of the Computer system for monitoring turnout and preventing illegal voting, the selection and appointment of the computer operators of the electoral bureaus of the polling stations shall be approved by decree of the Permanent Electoral Authority.


(3) The computer infrastructure held by the local and central public administration authorities, as well as by schools, shall be used, as a general rule, for the implementation and functioning, during the elections, of the Computer system for monitoring turnout and preventing illegal voting, under the coordination of the Special Telecommunications Service.


(4) The Special Telecommunications Service shall provide the special telephony and voice and data communication services necessary to the electoral bureaus and offices, and it shall ensure the functioning of the Computer system for monitoring turnout and preventing illegal voting. The amounts necessary for covering these expenses shall be ensured by the state budget.


(5) Computer operators carry out their activity under the conditions set up by decision of the Permanent Electoral Authority.


(6) The distribution of computer operators appointed according to paragraph (2) to the electoral polling stations from the country shall be made by decision of the Permanent Electoral Authority.


(7) No more than 3 computer operators shall be distributed to a polling station from the country.


(8) Besides the computer operators distributed to the polling stations from the country, the Permanent Electoral Authority shall distribute, at the proposal of the Special Telecommunication Service, at least one computer operator near each polling station from the country.


(9) According to this law, by polling station from the country shall be read the property from the country where at least 2 polling stations are in function.


(10) The members of the electoral bureaus of the polling stations from abroad shall also fulfil the tasks that are incumbent to the computer operators, according to law.


(11) The central public and local authorities involved, according to law, in the setting up of the elections shall sustain the implementation and proper functioning of the Voter turnout monitoring system to prevent illegal voting, with their own staff, furthermore named computer scientists.