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1. The referendum committees indicated in Article 19 of this Law should draft and conduct the referendum openly. They inform the citizens about their work, formation and makeup of the city, regional and polling district referendum committees, location and work times.
2. Information concerning the meetings of the referendum Committee shall always be posted in the building, which is the headquarters of this Committee, on a bulletin board installed there and the referendum Committee members shall be informed personally at least 24 hours prior to the start of the meeting.
3. The Central Electoral Committee shall provide through the Internet website and the mass media, additional information regarding their meetings in which the issues shall be discussed regarding: the registration and determining of a group, whether the signatures submitted by the group meet the requirements of this Law; on the formation of the city and regional committees and the changing of the makeup thereof; on decisions based on drawing lots; on the results of the referendum and the determination of the final results of the referendum; also it shall provide information regarding the meetings in which disputes on the violations in referendum agitation and of this Law are being examined. The Central Electoral Committee shall also publish its decisions adopted in the course of organising and conducting the referendum and the preliminary voting results of the referendum. The preliminary results of the referendum shall be published in the Internet website, upon being received by the Central Electoral Committee.
4. The meetings and voting of the Central Electoral Committee and the city and regional referendum Committees, and also the activities of polling referendum committees in the course of voting and ballot counting shall be public. They may be observed by: group members, its representatives and observers, party representatives and observers upon the presentation of certificates of a specified form, and the representatives of mass information media, upon presentation of official or work certificates.
5. People present in the hall during the sittings may, while in their places, take shorthand notes or minutes of the sitting, photograph or film, and make sound and video recordings. To photograph or film and make video recordings, when that shall require moving around the station or employ special lighting equipment, and also to do direct broadcasts of the sittings by radio or television shall only be possible with the permission of the committee chairman.
6. The sittings and balloting of the Central Electoral Committee and the referendum committee may not hold closed sittings. The Central Electoral Committee may forbid outsiders to enter the work station of the staff serving the referendum committee and document storage, should that be necessary in order to ensure the undisturbed performance of these workers and to protect the referendum documents.
7. Should there be reason to believe, that a threat may arise in the course of the sitting to the safety of the participants at the sitting, the chairman of the committee may ask the police to check the documents, personal belongings or do a personal check of the person, among the persons entering the hall.
8. The committee may remove from the hall the persons who interfere with its normal work performance.
9. The producers and disseminators of public information shall provide information through the mass media on the drafting and conducting of the referendum. Journalists shall have the right to participate in all events, which shall be organised by the referendum committees, and also may obtain information regarding the preparation and conducting of the referendum.
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