For the election of public officials, polling stations shall be established in government agencies (institutions),schools,public places or other appropriate places depending on the range of the electoral district and the distribution of electors.
The locations of polling stations should be equipped with barrier-free facilities.If there weren't such choices, the stations should use relating auxiliary equipment or tools to assist those physically-challenged to cast their ballots.The election commission should appropriately increase the number of work force to actively help those physically-challenged people according to the status of barrier-free situation in the stations.
For the election of indigenous public officials, the election commission may,depending on the actual circumstances,respectively establish a polling station or hold the voting in the polling station for regional election.
Except the electors , electors' children under the age of 6 and a family member or accompanying person prescribed in Paragraph Three of Article 18, anyone who does not wear the sign issued by the election commission of specific levels may not enter the polling stations.However,this shall not apply to the prosecutors who need enter the polling stations for performing duties according to law.
After the voting is finished,a polling station shall be immediately transformed into a ballot counting station to count the ballots in public.
After the ballot counting is finished,the chief administrator and the chief supervisor of the ballot counting station shall announce the result of ballot counting in accordance with the report form of voting and ballot counting at once.In addition to pasting it at the gate of the ballot counting station,the foresaid parties shall sign their names on the duplicated copies of the report form of voting and ballot counting of the same content on the spot, and hand them to the political parties recommending the candidates and the representative designated by the candidates not recommended by political parties;each political party or representative shall receive one copy only.
After the voting and ballot counting is finished, the chief administrator of the polling/ballot counting station shall,jointly with the chief supervisor,pack and seal the ballots divided into residual ballots,valid ballots and invalid ballots as well as the list of electors, sign or seal at the sealing,and transfer them to the municipal or county(city) election commission through the township(city/district) office for safekeeping.The ballots referred to in the preceding Paragraph may not be unpacked except it is necessary to do so for the prosecutors or the court to perform duty according to law.
The ballots and the list of electors referred to in Paragraph Six shall be kept for the period prescribed below after the ballot counting is finished:
1.The residual ballots shall be kept for one month.
2.The valid ballots and the invalid ballots shall be kept for six months.
3.The list of electors shall be kept for six months.
If any lawsuit is raised during the safekeeping period in the preceding paragraph,the safekeeping period of the part relating to the lawsuit shall be prolonged to additional three months after the determined judgement.