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Article 53
 

1. The extract of electoral components is subject to additions, changes or deletions, when, from the publication of the electoral components to the posting of the voter list, a person who has turned or turns 18 years old on the election date:


a) has acquired or relinquished Albanian citizenship;
b) is found incapable to act by a final court decision;
c) dies;
ç) one or more civil status components, which constitute electoral components, are changed;
d) is registered more than once in the list;
dh) is assigned to the wrong voting centre;
e) is not assigned to any voting centre;
ë) the polling unit is merged with another unit or the list is split in compliance with article 62.


2. If one or more electoral components of a voter need to be added, changed or deleted, the request is made to the relevant civil status office in compliance with the law on civil status and legal acts issued for its implementation, as follows:


a) in the case of letters “ç”, “d”, “dh” and “e” of point 1 of this article, the request for changes to the electoral components is submitted by the citizen or an adult member of his/her family;
b) in the case of letters “a”, “b” and “c” of point 1 of this article, the request to add or delete the electoral components may be submitted by the citizen when he/she has acquired citizenship, an adult member of the person's family, the legal custodian or the General Directorate of Civil Status on its own initiative or based on the documentation submitted by third parties;
c) in the case of letter “d” of point 1 of this article, the General Directorate of Civil Status has the right to request the relevant civil status office to delete the duplicate electoral component or the component that does not match the domicile as registered in the National Civil Status Register.


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3. Citizens who are not included in the extract of electoral components because they have turned 100 years old, are included in the voter list of the polling unit of their registered domicile, according to letter “e” of point 1 and the procedure established in letter “a” of point 2 of this article.