Voting in Military Units

1. Voters performing the mandatory military service shall be entitled to vote in the military units where they serve. Voters performing the active military service, civil service or working under employment contracts in international military operations abroad shall be entitled to vote in the military units stationed abroad and involved in those international military operations. The procedure for and the time of voting in military units stationed abroad shall be laid down by the CEC on the recommendation of the Minister of National Defence.

2. A MEC shall, not later than 15 days prior to election day and on the recommendation of the commanders of military units stationed within the territory of the Republic of Lithuania, draw up a list of special post offices and, on the recommendation of the head of the post office, set such working hours of the post offices that the days of voting in them would be in compliance with Article 57(1) of this Law.

3. The commanders of military units shall draw up lists of voters voting in special post offices. The following must be indicated in this list of voters voting in a special post office: the voter’s name and surname, personal number, MEC (name and number), whether or not the voter has a Voter card. The commander of a military unit shall transfer the list of voters voting in a special post office to a MEC, receive Voter cards from it or print them on the basis of the data received electronically and ensure the delivery of Voter cards to voters, allocate premises suitable for voting, and be responsible for voters being notified about the working place and time of the special post office as well as facilitating the access of voters to the special post office. If it is impossible to set a special post office or to ensure that voters will be able to properly carry out actions related to voting, the commanders of military units (with the exception of the commanders of the military units stationed abroad) shall create conditions for voters to go to another special post office for voting or to travel on election day to a polling station on the voter list of which their names have been entered.

4. The provisions of Article 57 of this Law shall apply to voting in military units.

5. It shall be prohibited to exert influence upon self-determination of a voter voting in a military unit or to rush him to vote.