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Article E 7
 

• 1. The mayor and aldermen shall establish a municipal polling station for each election.


• 2. Notwithstanding the first paragraph, the mayor and aldermen may, in the case of a combined vote for the election of members of the provincial council and members of a general board, establish one or more municipal polling stations to count votes for one or more elections.


• 3. The municipal council may determine that a municipal polling station established for an election based on this Act shall also function as a municipal polling station for another vote called by the municipal council.


• 4A municipal polling station consists of a number of members to be determined by general administrative order, of whom one is the chairperson and at least one is the deputy chairperson.