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Article 88
 

(1) Votes shall be cast personally.
(2) Where the voter is a physically handicapped person and is unable to perform the required voting actions on his or her own, the Chairperson of the Committee may allow an accompanying person designated by the voter to help the latter. Where the decision of the Chairperson is challenged by a member of the Committee, the dispute shall be finally resolved by the District Election Committee. In such cases, the Committee shall specify the name and personal identification number of the accompanying person in the Notes column of the election roll. Where the physical handicap prevents the voter from signing personally, a committee member shall write a cross in the signature column and specify the case in the records.
(3) No person shall be allowed to accompany more than two voters.
(4) No committee member may accompany a voter.
(5) No persons other than voters casting their vote shall be allowed to stay at a distance of less than three metres from the voting booths when a voter is inside.
(6) No voting outside the voting premises shall be allowed.
(7) Voters shall be prohibited to take envelopes and ballots outside.
(8) The taking of ballot boxes outside the voting premises during the voting process and the counting of votes shall be prohibited.