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PD 1296 (The 1978 Election Code) Section 33

PD 1296 (The 1978 Election Code) Section 33

Duties and prerogatives of watchers.

Section 33

SEC. 33. Duties and prerogatives of watchers.—Upon entering the voting center, the watcher shall present and deliver to the chairman of the citizens election committee his appointment and forthwith his name shall be recorded in the minutes. The appointment of the watcher shall bear the personal signature or the facsimile signature of the registered candidate who appointed him. The watchers shall have the right to stay in the space reserved for them inside the voting center. They shall have the right to witness and inform themselves of the proceedings of the citizens election committee, to take notes of what they may see or hear, to file a protest against any irregularity which they believe may have been committed by the committee, to obtain from the committee a certificate as to the filing of such protest or of the resolution thereon, and to read the ballots after they have been read by the chairman as well as the election returns after they have been completed and signed by the members of the committee without touching them, but they shall not speak to any member of the committee.

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