Pre-election voting

1 Pre-election voting shall take place at the following places:

1. At district commissioners' offices, in main offices and branch offices. District commissioners may decide that pre-election voting at the official address of the commission shall take place at a special location outside the main office, and also that voting shall take place at other locations in their administrative areas. The commissioners decide which of their commission's staff shall be the election officials and the commissioners commission other stewards for these tasks


2. At the offices of the chairmen of local councils, or at their homes.

A voter who is undergoing treatment in a hospital, or is a resident of a hospital, old people's home, or care institution for disabled people, may cast his or her vote at this institution. The same applies to prisons and the inmates of prisons.

A voter who is not able to attend a polling session on the election date due to illness, disability, or childbirth, may cast his or her vote in a private home, unless the opportunity arises to cast the vote at an institution, pursuant to paragraph 2. Requests for permission to vote at a private home shall be in writing and shall be supported by a certificate from a person of legal age regarding the situation of the voter; they shall also be submitted to the relevant election official no later than 4pm four days prior to the election day. The election official can appoint two stewards as his or her agents to manage the casting of votes by the voters.

Election officials shall announce where and when votes may be cast, and this shall be done in the way in which official announcements are publicised in the locality in question. The procedure and attending hours shall be organised so that the polling will be carried out in as efficient a manner as possible. The casting of votes according to paragraph 2 shall take place during a time chosen by the election official in consultancy with the management of the institution.

The Ministry of Justice shall lay down further rules¹⁾concerning the procedures for the casting of votes pursuant to paragraphs 2 and 3. Such casting of votes may, however, not take place until three weeks before the election day. The agents for the lists of candidates, cf. Article 39, must be informed as to when the casting of votes according to paragraph 2 takes place.

¹⁾Guidelines 331/2002.