TITLE III: VOTER PARTICIPATION IN COMMUNITY LIFE

The information file provided for in Article LO 1112-8 is made available to the public by the collectivité de Saint-Martin at least fifteen days before the ballot. The information file is made available to the public at the hôtel de la collectivité. The electors of the collectivity shall be informed by any means. The file shall include the text of the question to which the electors are called to answer,…

To take part in the campaign for the referendum, groups of elected representatives, political parties and groupings that meet the conditions laid down in Article LO 1112-10 submit a request for authorisation to the President of the Territorial Council of Saint-Martin no later than 5 p.m. on the third Monday before polling day. Each group of elected representatives shall attach a list of its members to its request for authorisation….

Posters with a propaganda purpose or character that include a combination of the three colours: blue, white and red are prohibited.

The maximum number of places reserved for election posters, other than those set up next to polling stations, is set at sixteen in Saint-Martin.

The following articles of the Electoral Code apply to the preparatory operations for the ballot and to the conduct of voting operations, under the conditions laid down in Article D. 6313-1, the following articles of the Electoral Code: 1° Article R. 40 relating to the allocation of voters to polling stations; 2° Article R. 41 relating to polling times; 3° Article R. 42 relating to the composition of the polling…

Two identical types of ballot papers, printed in black on white paper, one bearing the answer “YES” and the other the answer “NO”, are provided by the collectivity of Saint-Martin, in a number equal to that of the registered voters within its jurisdiction. They are sent to the local authority’s office no later than the Tuesday before the ballot. The ballot papers and the electoral envelopes are placed at the…

The following articles of the Electoral Code shall apply to the process of counting the votes and declaring the results, under the conditions set out in Article D. 6313-1, the following articles of the Electoral Code: 1° Article R. 63 relating to the organisation of the count; 2° Article R. 64 relating to the role of tellers and members of the bureau; 3° Article R. 65 relating to the appointment…

The results of the ballot are recorded in two minutes drawn up on forms provided by the local authority. They are signed by the members of the bureau. The delegates of the authorised elected representatives, political parties or groupings are invited to countersign the copies of the minutes. As soon as the minutes have been drawn up, the result is announced in public by the chairman of the polling station…

The result shall be publicly announced by the president of the first polling station and immediately posted by the president of the territorial council.A copy of the minutes, to which the minutes of the voting operations in the polling stations are attached with their annexes, shall be sent to the representative of the State in the collectivity.

It is punishable by a fifth-class fine for any public authority or local authority agent to have distributed ballot papers or documents from elected representatives, political parties or political groupings entitled to take part in the campaign.