(1) The electoral bureaux of the polling stations shall have the following attributions:

a) shall receive from the mayors, on the basis of a minutes, two daysbefore the reference date, two copies of the permanent electoral rolls and two copies of the special electoral rolls, which include the voters of the polling station; a copy of each type of roll shall be provided to the voters for consultation and one copy shall be used on the reference date;

b) shall receive from the mayors, on the basis of a minutes, the ballot papers,the control stamp and the stamps marked “VOTED”, the forms for the conclusion of statements of poll, other printed material required for the conduct of the electoral process, as well as a ballot paper rejected by the president of the electoral bureau of the county, of the Bucharest Municipality district, or of the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad, where appropriate, which shall be posted at the polling station’s headquarters in a visible place on the day before the elections; the electoral bureaux of the polling stations abroad shall receive this material through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs;

c) shall run all the voting operations, shall take all the necessary steps for maintaining order both inside and around the polling station;

d) shall count the votes and record the voting results;

e) shall settle the objections referring to their own activity;

f) shall hand over to the county electoral bureaux or, where appropriate, tothe district electoral bureau the statements of poll including the voting results, the null and the contested ballot papers, together with the objections, petitions, and the material which they refer to, as well as the files including the electoral rolls used within the polling station, filed according to the type of rolls; the electoral bureaux of the polling stations abroad shall hand over the statements of poll including the voting results, the null and the contested ballot papers together with the objections, petitions, and the material which they refer to, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad or, in case it ceased activity, to the Bucharest Tribunal; the files including the electoral rolls used within the polling stations abroad, filed according to polling stations and types of rolls, shall be handed over to the Permanent Electoral Authority by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs;

g) shall hand over, on a minutes basis, to the representative of the court oflaw under whose jurisdiction they have their headquarters and which is located at the headquarters of the county electoral bureau or, where appropriate, at the headquarters of the district electoral bureau, the ballot papers used and uncontested, as well as the annulled ballot papers, the stamps and the other material used in the voting process; the electoral bureaux of the polling stations abroad shall hand over the above mentioned material to the diplomatic missions which, within 3 months of the publication of the election results in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, shall hand them over to be melted by the specialised economic agents;

h) shall provide, on the reference date, information concerning voterturnout, according to a schedule established by the Central Electoral Bureau.

(2) The electoral bureaux of the polling stations shall carry out any otherduties in accordance with the law.

(3) Following the handing over, the material provided for in paragraph (1) point a) and b) shall be sealed by the presidents of the electoral bureaux of the polling stations, and shall be kept under guard, until their transportation to the locations of the polling stations, in a place provided for by the mayor of the administrative-territorial unit where they carry out their activity. As for the polling stations abroad, after reception, the material provided for in point b) shall be sealed by the presidents of the electoral bureaux of the polling stations, and shall be kept until their transportation to the locations of the polling stations in a place provided for by the chief of the diplomatic mission in the state in question.