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Section 12
 

Polling districts


(1) For the casting and counting of votes, a mayor shall designate polling districts and polling stations not later than seventy days before polling day.   


(2) A polling district shall include approximately one thousand electors. A municipality in  which a military unit is stationed shall ensure that there is no polling district in whose electoral register are registered only soldiers pursuant to section 6(2). 


(3) For an elector who is resident in a health care facility, a social services facility or similar facility, or who is detained in a facility that is a police cell[9] or place of pre-trial custody, the polling district commission for the polling district whereof the facility is located shall ensure, in cooperation with the head of the facility, that the elector has an opportunity to exercise his or her electoral franchise. Where such an elector does not have permanent residence in the polling district and requests to exercise the right to vote, he or she shall vote by means of a voting certificate. 


(4) For electors pursuant to section 10(1), the mayor of city borough of Bratislava-Petržalka shall designate a polling district and polling station.