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12 U.S.C. § 2208

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In any election or merger vote, or other proceeding subject to a vote of the stockholders (or subscribers to the guaranty fund of a bank for cooperatives), conducted by a lending institution of the Farm Credit System, the institution—
  1. (1)may not use signed ballots; and
  2. (2)shall implement measures to safeguard the voting process for the protection of the right of stockholders (or subscribers) to a secret ballot.