At least two weeks before the vote, the Interior Minister publishes in the “Moniteur belge” (national gazette) a note indicating the day of the elections and the opening hours of the polling stations.

This note indicates furthermore the possibility of complaints by all voters at the municipality administration until 12 days before the elections.

The governor of the province or the appointed official ensures, an invitation to vote from the Council of burgomasters and lay judges is to be send to each voter to his actual place of residence at least two weeks before the elections.

However, for the municipalities of Fourons and Comines-Warneton, the competencies given to the governor of the province or his deputy through sentence 3 is exercised by the commissioner of the neighboring municipality of Tongres and the commissioner of the municipality of Mouscron respectively.

Whoever is registered in the voters’ list mentioned in article 10, is invited to vote. 

The voter who has not received his invitation to vote may pick it up at the municipal administration until the Election Day at noon.

This possibility shall be mentioned in the report stipulated in the 1st sentence.

These invitations to vote indicate the day and the polling station where the voter shall vote, the nominations to be made, the opening hours of the polling stations; the invitation recalls the provisions in the articles 94ter, § 1, 1st sentence, and § 2, sentence 2, and 130, 1st sentence, 3°. The invitation to vote are established in accordance with the model based on the royal decree, and give the name, first names, gender and main place of residence of the voter as well as the number under which he figures on the voters’ register.