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Article 66
 
Article 66. Arrangements for Voters, Referendum Participants to Vote Outside Polling Station
1. A precinct commission shall make voting arrangements for voters, referendum participants who are included in the list of voters, referendum participants in the electoral precinct, referendum precinct but cannot come to the polling station on their own, due to valid reasons (poor health, physical disability).
2. Save the cases referred to in Clause 10, Article 65 of this Federal Law, voting outside a polling station shall be conducted only on voting day and only on the basis of a written or oral application (including such written or oral application relayed by other persons) of a voter, referendum participant for an opportunity to vote outside a polling station. A precinct commission shall register all such written (oral) applications in a special register and, after the end of voting, shall keep this register together with the lists of voters, referendum participants.
3. An entry in the register mentioned in Clause 2 of this article, registering an oral application shall indicate the time when the application was received, the surname, first name, patronymic of the voter, referendum participant who stated his intention to vote outside the polling station, his place of residence, and shall be signed by the member of the commission who received this application. If such application was relayed by another person, the register shall also indicate the surname, first name and patronymic and place of residence of such person. Upon the arrival of members of a precinct election commission to the voter, the voter shall confirm his oral application by a written application.
4. A written (oral) application for voting outside the polling station must state the reason why the voter, referendum participant is unable to come to the polling station and must indicate the same data of the voter, referendum participant as is contained in the list of voters, referendum participants.
5. Written (oral) applications referred to in Clause 4 of this article may be submitted to the precinct commission not later than four hours before the end of voting time.
6. At least 30 minutes before the departure of members of a precinct election commission, the chairman of the precinct election commission shall announce that commission members are going to conduct voting outside the polling station.
7. A precinct election commission may determine that the reason for which a voter, referendum participant cannot come to the polling station on his own is untenable and refuse to conduct voting outside the polling station for the voter, referendum participant..
8. A precinct commission shall have the necessary number (but not more than three) of mobile ballot boxes, that shall be determined by the commission’s decision.
9. Members of a precinct commission who are to conduct voting outside the polling station on the basis of such written (oral) applications shall receive ballots and sign for their receipt. Voting outside the polling station shall be conducted by at least two voting members of the precinct commission who shall have a sealed (temper proof) mobile ballot box that was sealed or temper proof at the precinct commission, the required number of ballots of the established form, the register described in Clause 2 of this article or a certified excerpt from the register containing the necessary data of the voter, referendum participant and the information about the received written (oral) application for voting outside the polling station, applications for voting outside the polling station received from voters, referendum participants, and required writing utensils needed for a voter, referendum participant to mark the ballot. Voting outside the polling station may be conducted by one voting member of a precinct election commission, provided that not less than two persons indicated in Clause 14 of this article are present at the voting.
10. Voting outside the polling station shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions of Article 64 of this Federal Law.
11. In the written application for voting outside the polling station, the voter, referendum participant shall indicate the series and number of his passport or an equivalent identity document and shall sign for receipt of each ballot. With the consent or at the request of the voter, referendum participant the series and number of his passport or an equivalent identify document may be entered in the application by a voting member of a precinct election commission. Voting members of a precinct election commission shall confirm the issuance of ballots by putting their signatures on the written application. A corresponding note shall be made on the application when a new ballot is issued in place of a spoilt one, and a note indicating the total number of received ballots shall be made, if a voter, referendum participant receives more than one ballot (depending on the type of the election and on the combination of elections, referendums).
12. Members of a precinct commissions who come to the voter’s, referendum participant’s place in response to their written (oral) applications may issue ballots only to those voters, referendum participants whose written (oral) applications were recorded in the register under Clause 2 of this article.
13. The series and number of the passport or an equivalent identity document of a voter, referendum participant who voted outside the polling station shall be written in the list of voters, referendum participants by voting members of the precinct commission who went to the voter’s, referendum participant’s place in response to their written (oral) applications. At the same time, the words "Voted outside the polling station," signed by the commission members indicated above, shall be written in the appropriate column (columns) of the list of voters, referendum participants.
14. When voting is carried out outside the polling station, non-voting members of an election commission, observers may be present at the voting. In this case, a precinct election commission shall provide the same possibilities to come to the place of voting both for voting members of the precinct election commission who conduct voting outside the polling station and for not less than two non-voting members of the election commission, observers appointed by different candidates, political parties, electoral blocs, referendum initiative groups, other referendum participant groups.
15. Voting outside the polling station shall be organized so as to prevent any violations of electoral rights of a voter, referendum participant and distortion of the expression of their will.
16. If a voter, referendum participant who made a written or oral application for voting outside the polling station comes to the polling station to vote after members of the precinct election commission were sent to him to conduct voting outside the polling station, a relevant member of the precinct election commission shall not issue a ballot to this voter at the polling station until the commission members who organize voting outside the polling station in response to the written or oral application of this voter, referendum participant come back and it has been established that the voter, referendum participant has not voted outside the polling station.
17. A separate certificate shall be drawn up to record the number of written and oral applications of voters, referendum participants for voting outside the polling station and the number of issued, used and returned ballots, and such certificate shall also indicate the non-voting members of a precinct election commission and observers who were present when voting outside the polling station was conducted.