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Article 10
 

(1) The documents necessary for exercising the right to postal voting, which are sent to the voters, are the following:


a) an outer envelope presenting the security elements to ensure its sealing, in which the inner envelope and the voter certificate shall be placed;


b) an inner envelope presenting the security elements to ensure its sealing, in which the voting option(s) shall be placed, where appropriate. The inner envelope shall contain a "VOTED" self-adhesive stamp, presenting the security elements established by Government decision. The voter shall glue the stamp on to his/her option in the postal voting form;


c) the voter certificate;


d) instructions concerning the exercise of the right to vote, including also the deadline within which the voter must put in the mail box or at the post office the documents referred to in Article 14 (5), so that they are dispatched to the competent electoral bureau, within the deadline set by law;


e) the postal voting paper.


(2) The outer envelope is self-addressed and it presents the safety elements to ensure its sealing.


(3) The outer envelope has imprinted on it the last and first names of the voter, the postal address of the voter, the address of the electoral bureau for postal voting, according to this law, as well as a barcode to ensure the sole identification of the voter.


(4) The manufacturing of the documents referred to in paragraphs (1) and (2), as well as the dispatch of all the documents necessary for exercising the right to postal voting to the voters are ensured by the C.N. "Poşta Română" – S.A., in compliance with the provisions of Article 12 (b) of Government Emergency Ordinance no. 34/2006 on the allotment of public procurement contracts, public works concession contracts and service concession contracts, approved as amended and supplemented by Law no. 337/2006, as subsequently amended and supplemented.


(5) The documents necessary for exercising the right to postal voting shall be placed in another envelope and sent to the domicile or residential address of the voter, as indicated in the electoral list for the postal voting, made available by the Permanent Electoral Authority.


(6) The dispatch of the documents necessary for exercising the right to postal voting to voters can be done through a priority or express system, for which an acknowledgement of receipt shall be requested.


(7) The manufacturing of all the documents referred to in paragraph (1), as well as their dispatch shall be carried out under the supervision of the constituency electoral bureau for the Romanian citizens domiciled or residing abroad.