Chương 6 Luật bầu cử đại biểu hội đồng nhân dân 2003: Trình tự bầu cử

Chapter VI

ELECTION ORDER

Article 48.- The voting shall begin at seven hours and end at nineteen hours on the same day. Depending on the local situation, the Election Teams may decide to begin the voting earlier and end it later than scheduled, but it must not begin before five hours and end after twenty hours on the same day. For those polling stations where one hundred percent of voters have already gone to the poll, the Election Teams of such polling stations may end the voting earlier than scheduled.

Before the voting, the Election Teams must check the ballot boxes to the witness of voters.

Article 49.- Each voter may cast his/her vote in the election of deputies to the People's Council of each level.

Voters must go to the poll themselves and must not ask others to cast the ballots on their behalf, except for cases prescribed in Article 50 of this Law; and must produce their voter's cards before casting their ballots.

Article 50.- Voters who cannot write ballots by themselves may ask others to do that for them but they must cast their ballots by themselves. Those who are asked to write the ballots must keep secret the voters' ballots. Disabled persons who cannot cast their ballots by themselves may ask others to cast the ballots into the ballot boxes.

In cases where voters are sick, old or disabled and cannot go to the polling rooms, the Election Teams shall send their staff to bring extra ballot boxes and ballots to voters' residence places so that voters can receive their ballots and cast them.

Article 51.- When voters write their votes, nobody, including the Election Teams' members, is allowed to observe them.

If errors are made, voters may ask for new ballots.

When voters have cast their ballots, the Election Teams shall have to stamp the "already cast ballots" seal on voter's cards.

Article 52.- Everybody must abide by the polling rooms' internal regulations; election propagation and campaigning must not be conducted at polling stations.

Article 53.- When the voting time ends, if any voters present in the polling rooms have not yet cast their ballots, only after such voters cast their ballots, can the Election Teams announce the end of the voting.

Article 54.- During the election day, the voting must be conducted continuously. In case of unexpected events which interrupt the voting, the Election Teams must immediately seal up papers and ballot boxes, promptly report such to the Election Boards, and at the same time take necessary measures to continue the voting.

In special cases where the voting needs to be postponed or held earlier than scheduled, the Election Teams must promptly report thereon to the Election Boards in order to request the Election Councils to report such to competent agencies for consideration and decision.