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Article 32
 

Special lists of voters


1. Special lists of voters shall include:


a) Electoral Administration officers who are unable to vote in elections on the polling day according to their place of registration because of their activities in election commissions: the respective DEC shall enter Electoral Administration officers in the list of pre-defined electoral precincts not later than the fifth day before the polling day;
b) voters who undergo treatment in a hospital or in any other inpatient facility and who cannot be discharged from hospital on polling day because of their health problems: the head of the relevant medical institution shall draw up a list of those individuals and shall submit it to the respective DEC not later than the sixth day before the polling day;
c) voters serving a sentence in prison on the polling day. The head of the relevant penitentiary institution shall draw up a list of these individuals and shall submit it to the respective DEC not later than on the sixth day before polling;
c1) voters who are in administrative detention on a polling day. The head of the relevant institution shall draw up a list of such individuals and shall submit it to the respective DEC not later than four days before polling;
d) military personnel and persons with a special rank of the Ministry of Defence of Georgia, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia, the Ministry of Corrections of Georgia, the State Security Service of Georgia, the Georgian Intelligence Service, and the Special State Protection Service, and the personnel of the Medical Department, Penitentiary Department and penitentiary facilities of the Ministry of Corrections of Georgia, whose service conditions or health conditions require their presence at an address different from their place of registration, which falls within another electoral district. Lists of such personnel shall be compiled by commanders of respective divisions/units or heads of respective intstitutions/divisions and shall be submitted to appropriate DECs:
d.a) in the case of general and extraordinary elections and by-elections – not later than on the 25th day before the polling day;
d.b) not later than on the sixth day before the polling day, taking into account the results of conscription;
d1) during by-elections, as well as extraordinary elections of municipality bodies - servicemen of institutions determined by subparagraph (d) of this paragraph who were included in a special list of voters during the last regular elections;
e) voters who are staying abroad and who are registered with a consular office of Georgia on the polling day, also voters who are not registered with a consular office of Georgia but have gone through electoral registration in a PEC set up abroad or in a consular office not later than the 21st day before Election Day: the head of the relevant consular office shall draw up a list of those individuals and shall submit it to the CEC not later than the 20th day before the polling day. During the period of parliamentary and presidential elections, from the day of announcing an election until not later than the 21st day before Election Day, voters shall be exempted from a consular fee charged for registration with a consular office;
f) (Deleted - 22.6.2016, No 5441).


11. A list of service conditions of servicemen provided for by paragraph 1(d) of this article, which require their presence at an address different from their place of registration on election day; the procedure and conditions for compiling a list of such servicemen and submitting it to a relevant DEC; and creating appropriate conditions for their participation in elections, as well as a list of conditions for those particular service conditions and categories of relevant persons who cannot leave their workplace on polling day due to these conditions shall be determined by an ordinance of the Government of Georgia.


12. Commanders of respective military divisions/units or heads of respective institutions/divisions shall submit to the CEC lists of servicemen who were not included in a special list of voters and who are authorised to cast their votes according to their place of registration.


2. The head of the relevant institution shall be responsible for the accuracy of data entered in the special list of voters that shall be endorsed by his/her signature.


3. A DEC shall, by an ordinance, draw up and approve special lists of individuals defined in the first paragraph of this article, also based on its own data, not later than the third day before Election Day, and shall immediately submit them to the respective PEC.


4. If voters are entered in a special list of voters, a respective note shall be made in the unified list of voters of an electoral precinct and shall be endorsed by signatures of the PEC chairperson and secretary.


5. Voters entered on a special list of voters, based on paragraphs (a-c) and (d) of this article shall vote in:


a) both majoritarian and proportional elections, provided that voters change their whereabouts within the territory of the same electoral district or the same local electoral district in the case of municipal elections;
b) parliamentary elections of Georgia held through the proportional electoral system and presidential elections and referenda of Georgia, provided that voters cast their votes in another electoral district.


5.1. Voters included in a special list of voters based on paragraph 1(d) of this article shall participate in elections held through majoritarian and/or proportional electoral system in accordance with the procedure established by paragraphs (52), (53) and (6) of this article.


5.2. Voters included in a special list of voters based on paragraph 1(d) of this article shall cast their votes according to the place of deployment of a relevant military division/unit in an electoral district(s) determined by a DEC for the purposes of participating in elections of the Parliament of Georgia held through majoritarian/proportional electoral system, elections of the President of Georgia, and elections of municipal bodies, as well as in referenda.


5.3. Based on paragraph 1(d) of this article, voters included in a special list of voters shall participate in:


a) elections of the Parliament of Georgia held through proportional electoral system and elections of the President of Georgia, as well as in referenda;
b) elections of the Parliament of Georgia held through majoritarian electoral system if he/she is deployed at a given location, permanently, on election day, at least for 6 months before election day and at least for 6 months after election day, or he/she changes his/her whereabouts within the territory of the same electoral precinct;
c) elections of the Parliament of Georgia held through proportional electoral system and elections of the President of Georgia, as well as in referenda if he/she is abroad on polling day.


5.4. Servicemen of institutions defined by paragraph 1(d) of this article, except the cases provided for by the same paragraph, shall vote in elections of the Parliament of Georgia held through proportional/majoriratian electoral system, elections of the President of Georgia, and elections of municipal bodies, as well as in referenda, in accordance with their place of registration. 6. During the elections for a municipality representative body Sakrebulo, or during the elections of a Mayor of a self-governing city (including Tbilisi) or a Gamgebeli of a self-governing community, a serviceman provided for by paragraph (1)(d) of this article, that on the polling day is deployed:


a) at a given location, permanently, on election day, at least for 6 months before election day and at least for 6 months after election day, shall participate in the Sakrebulo elections held under both majoritarian and proportional systems and in Mayoral/Gamgebeli elections;
b) at a permanent location for a period shorter than provided for by subparagraph (a) of this paragraph, shall participate in Sakrebulo elections held under the proportional system, however, the servicemen shall participate in the Mayoral/Gamgebeli elections and in Sakrebulo elections held under the majoritarian system only if their location is within the borders of the electoral district/local majoritarian electoral district, respectively, in which they are registered according to their place of residence.


7. (Deleted - 22.6.2016, No 5441)


7.1. The special lists of voters shall contain the same data of the voters as are included in the unified list of voters. This shall not apply to voters specified in paragraph (1)(a-c) of this article, whose data are entered into the special list of voters without photos, and also to the voters specified in paragraph (1 (d.b) of this article, whose data may be entered in the special list of voters without photos. The data on dates of starting and finishing work at the place of respective deployment of voters defined by paragraph 1 (d) of this article shall be entered into the special list of voters as well.


8. If a voter is entered into a mobile ballot box list, the special list of voters shall specify ‘mobile box’, the reason for entering the voter into the list and shall be endorsed by signatures of the PEC chairperson and secretary.