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Article 33
 

Mobile Voting


1. Voters, who are included in the voter list, but for health reasons or disability cannot attend the polling station; voters, who are in hospitals and detention centers on the election day; voters, who temporarily reside in remote and hard-to-reach areas, in distant pasture areas, and in exceptional cases by decision of the appropriate election commission, military staff, who on the election day appear to be in the military units located in special places far from the populated areas, if they permanently reside in the area of the election precinct, to which they are assigned, can vote at the place of their temporary stay. PECs shall be obliged to ensure the opportunity for such voters to vote by means of mobile ballot box 1 calendar day prior to the election day.


2. Mobile Voting shall be held only one calendar day prior to the election day and only on the basis of the written application of the voter to provide the opportunity for him/her to vote via mobile ballot box. The application of a voter may be made at any time after formation of the PEC, but no later than 3 calendar days before the voting. The PEC shall register all submitted applications in a special registry. The reason, for which the voter cannot arrive to the voting premises and his/her data shall be indicated in the application for mobile voting.


3. PEC shall have the necessary quantity of mobile ballot boxes (but not more than three). Mobile Voting shall be conducted by members of the PEC together with an operator, who shall receive the necessary number of ballots against their signature, as well as preliminary sealed mobile ballot boxes. Mobile Voting shall be held in the presence of representatives of candidates, political parties, observers, and mass media.


4. A PEC, 2 days prior to the election day, at its meeting shall assign through a drawing of lots, members of the commission (no less than two PEC members) who will organize mobile voting. Chairperson and secretary of the PEC shall not participate in drawing. 2 days before election day, the PEC shall post at its polling station the registry of the voters, who applied for mobile voting.


5. Chairperson of the PEC shall demonstrate empty mobile ballot boxes to the members of the PEC, observers, representatives of the candidates, political parties and mass media, which are sealed with a stamp of the PEC. Then Chairperson of the PEC shall put control sheets into the sealed ballot boxes. Control sheets shall indicate the number of the election precinct, the time of putting control sheets into the ballot boxes, the names of the chairman, secretary and other members of the PEC, the attending candidates, their representatives, and representatives of political parties. Control sheets shall be signed by the above mentioned persons and certified by the stamp of the PEC.