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Article J 25
 

• 1. The voter shall hand over to the chairperson of the polling station the identity document referred to in Article J 24, first paragraph, under a, and the voting pass.


• 2. If the chairperson determines that the voter does not have a valid identity document, the voter shall not be admitted to vote.


• 3. If, in the chair's opinion, the voter has a valid identity document, the chair will check the authenticity of the voting pass.


• 4. If the polling station determines that the voting pass is not authentic, the chair will confiscate the voting pass, and the voter will not be admitted to vote.


• 5. If the voting pass is authentic, the second member of the polling station will check whether the voting pass's serial number appears in the extract of invalid voting passes, as referred to in the second sentence of Article J 7a. If so, the second member of the polling station will confiscate the voting pass, and the voter will not be admitted to vote.


• 6. If the voting pass's serial number does not appear in the extract of invalid voting passes, the chair will then check whether the information on the identity document matches the information on the voting pass. If the chair determines that the information does not match, the voter will not be admitted to vote.


• 7. If the voter has a valid identity document and a valid voting pass, and the identity on both documents matches, the second member of the polling station will collect the voting pass, and the voter will be admitted to vote. Insofar as this action, as a result of a new vote as referred to in Article V 6, paragraph 2, concerns the processing of personal data as referred to in Article 4 of the General Data Protection Regulation, Articles 15, 16, and 18 of that regulation do not apply.


• 8. The chairperson will then hand the voter a ballot paper.


• 9. The chairperson will keep a record of the number of valid voting passes collected.


• 10. Voting passes collected pursuant to this article that are not genuine or invalid will be rendered unusable by the polling station.