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Article 29
 

Delivery of Voter cards



1. The delivery of Voter cards to voters shall be organised by a PEC.



2. Articles 58, 61, 62 and 63 of this Law shall lay down the procedure for delivering voter cards to voters in health care (except out-patient), social care institutions, military units, arrest houses, remand prisons (detention facilities) and penitentiary institutions, and to voters who have gone abroad.



3. The delivery of a Voter card shall be marked in the preliminary Voter list for Precinct. The voter shall be personally handed a Voter card or through any other person living together with the voter. If it is impossible to deliver a Voter card because a voter or any other person living together with the voter is not at home, the Voter card shall be returned to the PEC, this fact shall be marked in the preliminary voter list and a general invitation to go to the polls shall be left for the voter. This invitation may be put into a mailbox or handed to the voter’s neighbour who knows the voter and undertakes to give it to the voter. The delivery of Voter cards to voters must be finished at least 8 days before an election. If an election to the Seimas or to the European Parliament, or to municipal councils, or a referendum, or a run-off voting is scheduled for the same date as a presidential election, only one Voter card shall be handed.



4. The voter who has not received a Voter card in due time or who has received a Voter card with incorrect data, must forthwith inform the PEC in the territory of which s/he resides, and to produce her/his passport or other document confirming her/his identity to this PEC. If the voter has been entered on the voter list of this precinct, the PEC must fill out a new Voter card and issue it to the voter immediately. If the voter has not been entered on the voter list of this precinct, but the voter’s home address according to the data of the Residents’ Register is within the territory of this precinct or the voter produces other evidences that s/he resides within the territory of this precinct, the PEC shall provide an application form, as prescribed by the CEC, to be filled out by the voter in order to be entered on the voter list of this precinct (or a PEC member may fill out this application form; this application form may also be submitted electronically by the voter in accordance with the CEC procedure) and shall immediately inform the MEC about this. The PEC must take care of entering, in compliance with the above-mentioned application, the voter on the voter list of this precinct. A Voter card shall be written out and delivered to the voter as soon as the voter list is updated.



5. A MEC may, in accordance with the CEC procedure, issue a Voter card to the voter whose name is entered on the voter list of a different municipality if the said voter is not able to return to her/his permanent place of residence to collect or obtain the Voter card in other manner.