No later than one hour before the voting, the president and the members of the Electoral Board, in presence of the representatives of the list submitters inspect the voting premises, to determine whether the premises and the election material are in the same condition as they were the day before the elections and to see whether the ballot box is empty. The Electoral Board shall prepare minutes for the condition determined, which is signed by the president and the members, while if the representatives of the candidates have comments, they enter them in the minutes in their own handwriting.
If the comments of the representatives of the list submitters present are not entered in the minutes, they shall have right to submit the comments to the Election Commission within 5 hours following the signing of the minutes.
The voting begins at 7 a.m. and lasts until 7 p.m.
The Electoral Board shall stop the voting if the facility in which the polling station is located is not secured by the police, while there was a need for that, or if the police were called but did not respond to the call.
The Electoral Board shall also stop the voting in cases when the police cannot maintain order at the polling station and are not complying with the provisions of this Law.
If order at the polling station is disturbed, the Electoral Board may interrupt the voting until order is re-established. The voting may be interrupted in cases of occurrence of natural disasters or emergency. If the voting has been interrupted for more than an hour, it will be prolonged for as much time as the interruption lasted, but no longer than three hours. If the interruption was longer than three hours, the voting shall be repeated. The reasons for the interruption of the voting and duration of the interruption shall be entered in the minutes.
The polling station shall be closed at 7 p.m., and voters who happened to be in the polling stations will be allowed to cast their vote.
The Electoral Board may close the polling station before the end of the period set forth in paragraph 3 of this Article, provided that all voters registered in the excerpt of the Voters’ List have cast their votes.
