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Paragraph 68
 

68. The latter provision has been interpreted as requiring every member of the SEC personally to sign every extract – one for each type of election being held in every polling station (nearly 3,000 in number). This ritual is exhausting for the SEC members and consumes a considerable amount of their time in a key electoral period (15 days prior to an election). It was recommended in the previous Venice Commission-ODIHR opinion that this provision be amended in connection with adoption of the Code, so that some other evidence of certification of the extracts by the SEC could be adopted. But this recommendation has not been followed, and several references to “signing” of voters’ list extracts continue to exist.[37] In fact, at one place a previous reference to “certified” voters’ list extract has been changed to read “signed”.[38]