29.2 Tables should be installed in the precinct centers foe handing the ballots (one table for each 1,000 voters) and also for the registration of voters and stamping the ballots (one table for each 1,000 voters )

29.3 The tables for the registration of the voters and for stamping the ballots must be placed in the area between the booths (rooms for voting) and the ballot box, as close to the ballot box as possible.

29.4 The ballot box and the tables allocated for the registration of the voters and the stamping of the ballots must be placed in a location visible for the majority of those entitled to be present in the precinct.

29.5 Before the start of voting, the committee determines, through a process of random selection and registers those of its members who will hand the ballots (two members of the committee for each 1,000 voters) who will register the voters and stamp the ballots by a stamp assuring the validity of the ballots (two members of the committee for each 1,000 voters) on the day of elections and also determines the working shifts of these committee members.

29.6 On the day of elections the committee chairman, in the presence of committee members and those entitled to be present at the voting is doing the following:

1) checks, closes and seals the ballot box;
2) hands one list of voters for each committee member responsible for registration of voters and the committee member responsible for handing the ballots;
3) hands amount of ballots equal to the number of voters in the lists of voters to the members of the committee responsible for handing the ballots;
4) verifies the wholeness of the envelope stamped by Regional Electoral Commission which contains the stamp for assuring the validity of the ballots and registers the number of the envelope;
5) opens each envelope and verifies, that the seal of the packing of the stamp assuring the validity of the ballots is untouched;
6) braeks the seal of the parcel, containing the stamp, assuring the validity of the ballots, registers the serial number and the number of the stamp and hands it to the committee member responsible for the registration of the voters and assuring the validity of the ballots.

29.7 The actions prescribed in the part four of the present Article are conducted in the mentioned sequence. Each next action is conducted after the accomplishment of the previous one.

29.8 A protocol is beingcomposed for the mentioned actions.

30.1 Each voter arriving to vote presents a passport or other document substituting the passport to the member of the committee responsible for handing the ballots, who checks it, finds the name of the voter in the list of voters, notes the number of the voter in the lists of voters on a coupon corresponding to the prescribed specimen, and hands the filled in coupon and one of each ballots for the elections of the community leader and the member of the community council to the voter.

30.2 Receiving the ballot the voter enters the designated booth or room for secret balloting.

30.3 The voter fills in the ballot in the booth or room for secret balloting, where some amount of clean ballots (at least two) must be available during the voting.

30.4 In case the ballot is filled in incorrectly the voter can use the clean ballots available in the booth (room).

30.5 If a voter is incapable of personally completing their ballot they may at his/her discretion, invite another person into the ballot booth or room, excluding the members of the committee or the candidate proxies.

30.6 Except for the above-mentioned case, the presence of the persons in the voting booth or room during completion of the ballot is prohibited.

30.7 The voter makes a note on the ballot next to the name of the candidate in whose favor he/she is voting. If the voter is voting against all candidates then he/she makes notes on the line "I disagree to everybody" across from the names of the candidates.

30.8 In cases where only one candidate is running for community leader or the community council, the voter makes a note besides the words "I agree" if he/she is voting in favor, and the voter makes a note besides the words "I disagree" across from the name of candidate if he/she is voting against.

30.9 The voter brings out the folded ballot from the ballot booth or room and approaches to the table for registration and stamping the ballots. The member of the committee responsible for the registration and stamping the ballots finds the name and the number of the voter in the lists of voters based on data on coupon, checks the passport or other document substituting the passport of the voter and fills in the data of the identity proof across which the voter signs. After that the mentioned committee member stamps the voters ballot without taking it from the hands of the voter. The voter drops the ballot personally and gets out from the precinct.

30.10 The voter has no right to return to the booth after coming out from it and also open the folded ballot.

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