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Article 218
 

(Decision and Sending of Overseas Electoral Register, etc.)


(1) The overseas electoral register, etc. shall be decided 30 days before the election day and shall be effective to the relevant election only.


(2) The person having the right to prepare the register shall, if the overseas electoral register, etc. are decided, immediately send a copy of the register, etc. (including a copy of the computerized data) to the competent Gu/Si/Gun election commissions. In such cases, the head of Gu/Si/Gun shall send a report of overseas absentees (where the computerized information and data is received pursuant to Article 218-7 (3), including a copy of such computerized information and data) along with the register, etc.


<Amended by Act No. 10981, Jul. 28, 2011>


(3) Where the National Election Commission intends to prepare and deliver the ballot papers under Article 218-18 (3) or (4), he/she shall combine the
overseas electoral register, etc. decided pursuant to paragraph (1) into one package, and send it to an overseas election commission; such procedures and methods and other necessary measures shall be prescribed by the Regulations of the National Election Commission.


<Newly Inserted by Act No. 10981, Jul. 28, 2011>


(4) After an overseas elector, etc. casts a ballot, no person shall raise legal or administrative objection to whether the overseas elector, etc. has the right to vote for the relevant election, on the ground that he/she is not the national of the Republic of Korea.


<Newly Inserted by Act No. 10981, Jul. 28, 2011>


[This Article Newly Inserted by Act No. 9466, Feb. 12, 2009]