Most of the provisions of the draft referred to the organisation of the referendum could perfectly be dealt with in an unified Electoral Code, making it unnecessary to repeat –and making it much easier to understand- many rules related to the establishment and operation of polling stations (Chapter III, articles 23 ff), the legal status of their members (article 28), preparation of Voter Registers (Art. 31), and so on. Curiously enough, the wording of article 31.7 of the draft seems to have departed from the same point, when talking about a term “prior to the day of voting at the election or referendum”.
