Proof of the elector’s right to vote

1. Exercise of the right to vote shall be subject to the elector’s registration in certified copies of electors’ rolls or a special register’s certificate and to the elector’s identification in either case by production of his National Identity Card, passport or driving license with the holder’s photograph and also, if he is an alien, of his residence card.

2. The certified copies of the electors’ roll referred to in the preceding paragraph shall only comprise citizens already of age on polling day.

3. Persons who can prove their right to registration in that ward’ s roll of electors by producing written evidence of a court’s decision to that effect are also entitled to the exercise of their right to vote.

4. Where, despite production of the documents referred to in subsection 1 above, the polling station’s bureau, in their own judgment or on a public objection at that moment by a polling controller, an agent or another elector, are in doubt of the identity of a person who is about to vote, they shall decide on the issue by a majority vote on the basis of documentary and oral evidence given by the electors present at the ward. They shall send in any case a report n the possibility of a criminal offence to the appropriate court of law, so that it may prosecute any person guilty of impersonation or of denial of his own identity.

5. The special electoral certificate enabling citizens to prove in exceptional circumstances their registration in the electors’ roll shall be regulated by such instructions as the Central Electoral Commission deems fit regarding delivery, relevant authority, delay for issue and cases where it
applies.

 1. AS AMENDED BY SECT. 5 OF INSTITUTIONAL ACT 1/1997, OF MAY 30
 2. AS AMENDED BY SECT.25 OF INSTITUTIONAL ACT 8/1991, OF MARCH 13
 5. AS AMENDED BY SECT. 13 OF INSTITUTIONAL ACT 3/1995, OF MARCH 23