Constitution of polling stations and of electoral committees of the polling stations
In pursuit of the purpose to organize the ballot and to count the votes, the electoral districts shall be divided in polling stations.
The district electoral councils from different localities shall constitute polling stations based on the proposals of the mayors of towns (municipalities) and villages, with at least 35 days before the elections date comprising at last 30 up till 3000 voters. For elections of all levels and republican referendums, the same term is valid for the constitution of polling stations.
Special polling stations may be formed with hospitals, resort houses, maternities, asylums and hostels for old people. Such polling stations shall include at least 30 voters.
Serving voters shall participate in elections in the locality where the military unit is dislocated.
In case of parliamentary elections or republican referendum, polling stations shall be constituted with each diplomatic mission or consular office of the Republic of Moldova fir the personnel of these institutions and the members of their families, as well as for e citizens of the Republic of Moldova located in the respective country regardless their number. These polling stations belong to the electoral circumscription of Chisinau municipality.
In case of local, new or partial elections or local referendum when a district electoral council of the second level is not formed, the Central Elections Commission shall constitute polling stations and electoral committees instead.
The district electoral council shall set numbers for each polling station of the district and will bring to the knowledge of the public, information about the area covered by each polling station, address of the electoral committee of the respective polling station, address premises where elections are to take place and the manner of contact relations.
Polling stations shall be numbered starting with the locality of residence of the district electoral council, then with that from municipalities, towns, communities and villages, following an alphabetical order.
For the purpose of exercising the duties provided by the present code, the mayor’s offices shall offer all necessary support and information to the electoral committees of the polling stations.
District electoral councils shall constitute electoral committees of the polling stations with at least 20 days before the elections day including 5-11 members with a deliberative right to vote. For elections of all levels and republican referendums, the same term is valid for the constitution of electoral committees of polling stations.
The local council shall propose the lists of members of electoral committee of the polling station. In case of non-submitting the lists, members of the electoral committee of the polling station shall be appointed upon the initiative of the district electoral council in a 5 days term from the date of expiry of the term indicated in (paragraph 10).
Within 2 days from the date of constitution of the electoral committee of the polling station, its members shall elect from among themselves the chairman, deputy-chairman and secretary of the electoral committee, adopting the respective decision in order to immediately communicate it to the district electoral council and for the purpose of bringing to the public knowledge, information about composition and premises of the electoral committee as well as the manner of contact.
Within diplomatic missions and consular offices of the Republic of Moldova the chairman and the secretary of the electoral committee of the polling station, and in the case the diplomatic missions and consular offices have less than 3 employees, the suffrage shall take place through diplomatic mail, the ballot papers being sent to Central Elections Commission no later than the elections day.
In order to ensure the exercise of the right to suffrage, the Central Elections Commission is entitled to establish polling stations and electoral committees of polling station in other cases as well.
Members of the electoral committees of polling stations wit a deliberative vote may not be counselors in the local councils, either members of a party or other social-political organization participating in the elections.
[Article 29 as amended by the Law no.796-XV from 25.01.2002]
[Article 29 as amended by the Law no.894-XIV from 23.03.2000]
[Article 29 as amended by the Law no.1227-XIV from 21.09.2000]
[Article 29 as amended by the Law no.268-XIV from 04.02.1999].
