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Article 158
 

(Shipboard Polling)


(1) A shipmaster shall set the date and time to vote shipboard, taking into consideration the number of shipboard voters on the ship and circumstances in operation, during a period between eight and five days before the election day and shall install a shipboard polling place. In such cases, a shipmaster shall notify shipboard voters, without delay, of the date and time to vote shipboard and the place where a shipboard polling place is installed.


(2) When a shipmaster installs a shipboard polling place, he/she shall prepare equipment for transmitting shipboard votes by facsimile after voting while
ensuring the secrecy of shipboard voter’s votes.


(3) A shipmaster shall appoint one or more fair and impartial citizens of the Republic of Korea to attend as observers while voting shipboard is going on, from among seafarers who are on board the ship: Provided, That the foregoing shall not apply where only one citizen of the Republic of Korea is on board the ship.


(4) A shipmaster shall put his/her signature in the blank for signature on the ballot paper brought for shipboard polling by a shipboard voter to the shipboard polling place under paragraph (1) along with the observers specified in the main sentence of paragraph (3) (hereinafter referred to as “observers”). In such cases, a ballot paper already filled in before being brought to the shipboard polling place for casting shall be collected and shall be sealed in a separate envelop.


(5) A shipboard voter to whom a ballot paper is delivered pursuant to paragraph (4) shall put his/her signature in the blank for confirmation by the elector, fill in the blank for one candidate (referring to one political party in cases of an election of proportional representative National Assembly members) chosen by him/her on the ballot paper, and then transmit it directly to the competent City/Do election commission by facsimile installed at the shipboard polling place.


(6) A shipboard voter who has finished transmitting his/her shipboard vote pursuant to paragraph (5) shall seal it in an envelop by him/herself and submit it to the shipmaster.


(7) After completing shipboard polling on a ship, the shipmaster shall sort out the envelops of shipboard votes submitted pursuant to paragraphs (6) and the envelops of shipboard votes under the latter part of paragraph (4) with observers present at the scene, put them into a package, affix his/her and observers’ seals on the package, and them keep the package safely. 


(8) Upon completion of shipboard voting on a ship, the shipmaster shall prepare the record of the management of shipboard voting, transmit the record by facsimile to the City/Do election commission having jurisdiction over the seat of the regional maritime affairs and port office responsible for the management of the original ship register of the relevant ship (referring to the place of registration of the relevant shipping company, if the ship is a bareboat chartered under the condition that the ship shall acquire the nationality of the Republic of Korea, or the seat of the regional maritime affairs and port office with which the relevant ship management business is registered, if the ship has a foreign nationality) by not later than the day immediately before the election day and shall
submit the record of the management of shipboard voting and the envelops that he/she has kept pursuant to paragraph (7) to the competent City/Do election commission immediately upon arrival in the Republic of Korea. In such cases, such record and envelops may be submitted from a foreign country by international main even before the ship arrives in the Republic of Korea.


(9) A City/Do election commission shall install a technical device in the facsimile machine for receiving shipboard votes pursuant to paragraph (5) to ensure the secrecy of voting. 


(10) A City/Do election commission shall cut the front section of each shipboard vote received pursuant to paragraph (5) to put it into an envelop, attach the front section to the envelop with its seal affixed thereon, and then send it to Gu/Si/Gun election commission having jurisdiction over the address of the relevant shipboard voter. If it is impossible to identify who is the elector who cast a shipboard vote, such shipboard vote shall be sealed in an envelop and shall be kept safely with a cover stating the reason therefor.


(11) A City/Do election commission shall keep records of receipt and dispatch of shipboard ballot papers in the register of management of shipboard ballot papers. 


(12) A Gu/Si/Gun election commission shall receive shipboard ballot papers sent by the competent City/Do election commission and shall put them into a mail ballot box by the closing time of voting on the election day. 


(13) The procedure for shipboard voting, the technical requirements for facsimile for ensuring the secrecy of voting, the preparation and submission of the records of management of shipboard voting and the register of management of shipboard ballot papers, and other necessary matters shall be prescribed by Regulations of the National Election Commission.


[This Article Newly Inserted by Act No. 11374, Feb. 29, 2012]