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Article 45
 

(1) For the voters in Romania who are unfit to be moved for reasons of illness or disablement, at the written request thereof, submitted on the eve of the voting at the latest, accompanied by copies of medical or other official documents certifying that the persons in question are unfit to be moved, the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station may approve that a team made up of at least two members of the electoral bureau goes with a special ballot box and the material required by the voting - a stamp marked “VOTED”, ballot papers, and self-adhesive stamps necessary for the voting to be carried out. Within the jurisdiction of a polling station there shall be used only one special ballot box. The special ballot box may be carried only by the members of the electoral bureau of the polling station. The special ballot box may be carried only within the territorial jurisdiction of the respective polling station.


(2) For the cases referred to in paragraph (1) the voting shall be carried out on the basis of the table provided for in Art. 9 paragraph (2).


(3) The procedure for exercising the right to vote by persons who are under arrest, taken into preventive custody based on a warrant, or by persons who are serving a sentence with the loss of liberty, but who have not lost their electoral rights, shall be established by decision of the Central Electoral Bureau. The provisions of paragraphs (1) and (2) shall apply accordingly.


(4) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1), if within a prison is required voting by special ballot box by more than 400 people in detention, voting applications for the special ballot box may be submitted no later than the day before election day, at more polling stations in the locality of the prison, established by decision of the county electoral bureau and of the electoral bureaux of the Bucharest Municipality districts, respectively.


(5) Notwithstanding the provisions of par. (1), applications for voting by special ballot box formulated by persons which have the right to vote who are in hospitals may be submitted, no later than the day before voting at several polling stations in the locality of the hospital, established by decision of the county electoral bureau and of the electoral bureaux of the Bucharest Municipality districts, respectively.