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Article 17
 

Voters' Register and Polling Card

 (1) The local authorities of the commune shall maintain a register of persons eligible to vote for each polling district. The voters' register shall be on public display on the working days between the twentieth and the sixteenth day before the election.

(2) A person eligible to vote who is prevented from casting his or her vote in the polling district in whose voters' register he or she is entered or who has not been entered in the voters' register for reasons beyond his control shall be issued a polling card on application.