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Article 27
 

(1) The names of any citizens who have become disfranchised or who are deceased by polling day, as well as the names of any persons in respect of whom this is expressly provided for in this Code, shall be removed from the electoral rolls.


(2) (Amended, SG No. 98/2014, effective 28.11.2014) The Directorate General of Implementation of Penal Sanctions at the Ministry of Justice shall provide the Directorate General of Civil Registration and Administrative Services at the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works data about the persons serving custodial sentences for the automated removal of the said persons from the electoral rolls. The said information shall be provided 55 and 15 days in advance of polling day, respectively.


(3) The names of any citizens who have the right to vote but have been omitted, as well as those for whom the ground on which they have been removed has lapsed, shall be entered on or, respectively, added to, the electoral rolls. Any persons, who have completed the service of a custodial sentence or are no longer interdicted, or in respect of whom the grounds on which they have been deprived of the right to elect in a Member State of the European Union have lapsed, shall be entered on the electoral rolls upon presentation of a relevant document at the municipality or borough, or mayoralty.


(4) The entry referred to in Paragraph (3) shall be effected at the request of the voter by the authorities under Article 23 (1) herein before delivery of the rolls to the section election commissions.


(5) The additional entry referred to in Paragraph (3) herein shall be effected on polling day by the section election commission according to the permanent address (residence address).


(6) The entry, respectively, the additional entry, shall be effected upon presentation of an identity document and of a residence certificate, applicable to a national of another Member State of the European Union who has submitted a declaration under Article 359 (1) or under Article 408 (1) herein in due time.