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§ 118
 

Issuing of voting cards, elections authorities and voters voting with voting cards


(1) Each person entitled to vote in the new elections according to § 117, para 1, is entitled to be issued a voting card. By the issuing of the voting card and the voting with it, the regulations set out in § 38 to § 40 as well as § 56, § 68, § 70 and § 72 are to be applied accordingly, provided that together with the official ballot paper each voter voting with a voting card is issued with a ballot paper envelope, on which the name and the number of the provincial constituency, the letter and the designation of the regional constituency, as well as the address of the provincial elections authority issuing the voting card are to be indicated. 


(2) The casting of a vote by voters voting with voting cards in the constituencies where the elections proceedings were not annulled, is to take place in the presence of the municipal elections authorities and the ward elections authorities composed according to § 72 for the annulled elections, as long as no other provisions are made in para 3. In these special elections wards outside of Vienna, the functions of the ward elections authority can also be carried out by the municipal elections authority.


(3) When the election procedure in a given constituency was not annulled, the municipal elections authorities and in the City of Vienna the Vienna City Administration are to determine, not later than on the fifth day before the election day, in the presence of which ward elections authority the voters voting with voting cards from larger municipalities which were divided into wards for the purposes of the annulled elections can cast their vote.


(4) The municipal elections authorities and in the City of Vienna the Vienna City Administration have to determine the voting hours for voters voting with voting cards, not later than on the fifth day before the election day. The voting hours and the polling stations designed for the voters voting with voting cards are to be announced in a public notice, on the fifth day before the election day at the latest.