Procedure for voters voting with voting cards

(1) Voters voting with a voting card have to present it together with an official document or certificate (§ 67, para 2) indicating their identity as entered in the voting card. The names of all voters voting with voting cards, as long as they are not the ones described in para 2, have to be entered at the end of the electoral roll under the consecutive number as well as in the report on the election procedure. The voting card has to be taken from the voter concerned and marked with the consecutive number from the electoral roll. It has to then be attached to the record. If a polling station has been provided especially for voters voting with voting cards, the consecutive number of the vote record has to be indicated on the voting card. In such a polling station, the ballot paper envelopes do not have to be exchanged (§ 68, para 1, fourth and fifth sentences).

(2) When a voter who is already in possession of a voting card decides to vote in the presence of the elections authorities, in whose original electoral roll they featured, they have to cast their vote using the ballot paper issued to them together with the voting card, and in accordance with the remaining regulations set out in this federal law, after handing their voting card over to the elections authorities.

(3) In every polling station, voting cards that have been used to cast a vote by means of postal voting are to be accepted during the opening hours for the purpose of forwarding them to the superior district elections authority (§ 85, para 3, item k). This has also to be applied to wards, set up pursuant to § 72 para 1, as well as election authorities set up according to § 73 para 1.