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Article N 15
 

[Repealed without an effective date available. See the overview of changes]


• 1. The postal voting station shall hold two public sessions. The sessions shall serve, respectively, to:


o a. perform the acts referred to in Articles N 18 through N 22;


o b. count the votes and determine and announce the results.


• 2. The mayor and aldermen shall designate one suitable location for the postal voting station sessions for each day on which the postal voting station is in session. This location may also be located outside the boundaries of their own municipality.


• 3. Insofar as the sessions take place simultaneously, the acts performed for both sessions shall be performed by different members of the postal voting station.


• 4. Articles J 12 to J 14, J 16, with the exception of the provisions relating to polling booths, J 17, second paragraph, J 18, J 19, J 35, J 37 and J 39, second and third paragraphs, apply this provision shall apply mutatis mutandis to the sessions of the postal voting office, with the understanding that in Article J 18, paragraph one, "Article J 26, paragraph three" shall be replaced by "Article N 20, paragraph one."