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Article 18
 

(1) For the organisation of the election to the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate they shall set up the Register of the polling stations, administrated by the Permanent Electoral Authority, including the delimitation and numbering of the polling stations on the territory of Romania.


(2) The delimitation of the polling stations shall be set within 30 days of the setting of the election day by the mayors of the communes, towns, municipalities or administrative-territorial subdivisions of the component municipalities, together with the prefects and territorial structures of the National Centre for Database Management of the People’s Record, without them exceeding the limits of the uninominal colleges for the Chamber of Deputies.


3) The numbering of the polling stations shall be set by the prefect, within the time limit stipulated in article (2), at the level of each constituency, beginning with the county residence locality, and continuing with the localities of municipalities, towns, communes, in their alphabetical order; in the municipalities with administrative-territorial subdivisions the numbering shall be made with the observance of the order of these subdivisions, provided for by the law. The numbering of the polling stations from abroad shall be set by the minister of foreign affairs, by order, within the time limit stipulated in paragraph (2).


(4) The prefects shall communicate the delimitation and numbering of the polling stations at the constituency level to the Permanent Electoral Authority, for the registration in the Registry of the polling stations.


(5) The polling stations shall remain constant, except the modifications that need the updating. Any kind of modifications, including those occurred in the structure of the administrative-territorial units or in the townplanning of the localities, shall be immediately communicated by the prefects to the Permanent Electoral Authority.


6) The polling stations shall be organised as follows:


a) in the localities with a population of over 1,500 inhabitants, one polling station for every 1,000 – 2,000 inhabitants;


b) in the localities with a population under 1,500 inhabitants, a single polling station;


c) they may also organise polling stations in the villages or groups of villages with a population up to 1,000 inhabitants, located within more than 3 km of the premises of the polling station in the residence of the commune, town or municipality.


(7) The mayors and the secretaries of the communes, towns or municipalities, as well as the National Centre for Database Management of the People’s Record shall provide all the data, information and support that the prefects need in order to fulfil the obligations stipulated in paragraph (5).


8) Besides the diplomatic missions and consular offices of Romania, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs shall organise one or more polling stations for the electors with the domicile or residence outside the country. Besides these polling stations, they may also organise, with the consent of the government in the respective country, polling stations in other localities than those in which the diplomatic missions or consular offices have their premises. The electors having the domicile or residence in a state other than Romania shall exercise their right to vote at one of the polling stations in the country where they have the domicile or residence, set up under the terms of the present title. The residence abroad is proved by any document issued by the foreign authorities.


(9) The localities in which they organise polling stations abroad shall be set based on registrations of the diplomatic missions and consular offices of Romania.


(10) Romanian citizens with the domicile or residence in a state in which there are no diplomatic missions or consular offices of Romania, and where there is no possibility to organise a polling station, may express their right to vote in any of the polling stations organised in the states being part of the same uninominal college.