§ Section 15(untitled)

(1) Voting shall take place from 7.00 a.m.
until 8.00 p.m. local time. The Central Election Commission in
each city, except for Rīga, Daugavpils and Liepāja, as well as
the local election commission in each municipality may determine
one polling station where the election shall take place till
10.00 p.m. Rīga City Election Commission may determine four,
Daugavpils City Election Commission - two and Liepāja City
Election Commission - two such polling stations.
(2) At 7.00 a.m. the chairperson or the secretary of the
election commission shall, in the presence of the commission,
verify that the ballot boxes allotted for depositing ballot
papers are empty. Afterwards the ballot boxes shall be
sealed.
(3) Without disturbing the work of the commission, the course
of voting in the polling station may be observed by not more than
two authorised observers from each political party or association
of political parties, as well as the members of the Central
Election Commission and relevant local government election
commission and the authorised persons of such commissions, mass
media representatives.
[8 May 2003; 4 September 2003; 17 July 2008; 8 November
2012; 3 December 2020]