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Section 9
 

Voting certificate


(1) An elector who is not able to vote in the polling district in whose electoral register he or she is registered shall receive from the municipality at his or her request a voting certificate; the elector shall be deleted from the electoral register and a note about the issuance of the voting certificate shall be added to it. Such a deletion is valid for the period of polling by voting certificate.


(2) A request pursuant to subsection (1) shall be submitted by the elector either in person or through a proxy. A request for a voting certificate may be made during office hours of a municipality not earlier than thirty days, and not later than two days, before polling day. A municipality shall issue a voting certificate on the same day that the request for it is made. A municipality shall keep a record of issued voting certificates. 


(3) Voting certificate forms shall be provided to each municipality by the Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic (in this Act referred to as "the Ministry"). Voting certificate forms must include security features.


(4) A voting certificate entitles the holder to be registered in the electoral register of any other polling district. Such an entry is valid for the period of polling by voting certificate.