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Section 292
 

(1) For counting the votes cast at foreign missions and the votes cast by absentee voters, the parliamentary single-member constituency election commission shall, by the 8th day before voting day, designate the responsible polling station commission from among those operating in the settlement of the seat of the parliamentary single member constituency, other than the polling station commission of the polling district designated under section 78.


(2) The polling station commission referred to in paragraph (1)


a) shall give all voters a ballot paper envelope on which a reference to the parliamentary single-member constituency is indicated; and


b) shall, when the voting is closed, seal the ballot box in a manner that no ballot paper can be put in or taken out of it.


(2a) The polling station commission shall hand over the ballot box to the head of the parliamentary single-member constituency election commission, who shall arrange for its safe storage.


(3) The head of the parliamentary single-member constituency election office shall, not later than the sixth day after the voting day in Hungary, hand over to the chair of the polling station commission referred to in paragraph (1) the ballot box and the package referred to in section 287 (1).


(4) The polling station commission referred to in paragraph (1) shall mix the envelopes in a package under section 287 (1), without opening them, with the envelopes containing the votes cast in the polling district, and shall perform, without delay, the tasks set for the polling station commission in Chapter XI, for which it may make use of the assistance of the members of the local election office.