Right to be issued with a voting card

(1) Persons entitled to vote who, on the election day, are likely to be unable to cast their vote before the competent elections authority, for example due to being absent, for health reasons or due to a stay abroad, have the right to be issued with a voting card.

(2) The right to be issued with a voting card is also given to those voters who are unable to cast their votes in the polling stations because of lack of transport or of being bedridden either in a hospital or at home for reasons of age or any other reason, or because of being under arrest in a prison, in an offenders institution or in police custody and who want to exercise their right to vote in the presence of a special authority (§ 73, para 1), as long as they have not been deprived of it according to the regulations set out in § 72 or § 74.

(3) When the reasons for being issued with a voting card for reasons set out in para 2 do not apply to a voter at a later stage they are to inform the municipality in which they have been staying before the election day that they renounce their right to be visited by a special elections authority as set out in §73.