§ Article 58Preparation of Polling Stations

1. A polling station of the polling district must be completely prepared for elections not later than 12 hours before the commencement of the poll. The electoral committee of a polling district must also have counted all ballot papers received from the municipal electoral committee and drawn up their acceptance report by the prescribed time. In the polling station of a polling district there must be a ballot box, secret voting booth (booths) in which a voter could fill out ballot papers in private. The campaigning and voter’s information material issued by the Central Electoral Committee may be displayed in the polling station; lists of candidates must be displayed in the polling station as well. The text of this Law must be accessible in each polling district. The campaigning material, except for the material issued by the Central Electoral Committee, must be removed from the polling station, passageways leading to or out of it (corridors) and from the territory within 50 metres of the building in which the polling station is situated. Working places for the electoral committee members and places for election observers must be also organised. Upon completion of preparations the polling station shall be closed, sealed, left under the police protection and the chairman of the electoral committee of the polling district shall inform the municipal electoral committee thereof.
2. The Central Electoral Committee shall lay down other requirements for the preparation of polling stations.
3. The chairman of the electoral committee of the polling district shall be responsible for fitting out the polling station by the due date and in an appropriate manner. If the municipality administration fails to allocate premises suitable for establishing a poling station or fails to ensure the provision of equipment necessary for voting, the chairman of the electoral committee of the polling district must forthwith notify the municipal electoral committee thereof and take measure to find premises suitable for fitting out a polling station and to acquire the necessary equipment as prescribed in Article 9 of this Law.