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Article 51
 

Organisation of Voting at the Polling Station

 

Voting shall performed in specially assigned premises that must be equipped with the sufficient number of booths or rooms for secret ballot and places for issue of ballot papers shall be determined and ballot boxes installed. Ballot boxes shall be installed in such a way that the voters should, when they approach them, pass compulsorily through the booths or rooms for secret ballot. Ballot boxes must be within a field of vision of the members of the precinct commission and persons mentioned in part three of Article 13 of this Code.

 

The precinct commission shall be responsible for the organisation of voting, the assuring of secret expression of will by electors and participants in the referendum, equipment of the rooms and the maintenance in them of the necessary order.

 

On the day of elections, referendum or holding of vote for recall of a deputy the ballot boxes shall be checked before the beginning of the vote and sealed by the chairman of the precinct commission in the presence of not less than two third of the members of the commission.