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Article 117
 

(1) The persons deprived of their electoral rights through final court ruling shall not participate in the voting and shall not be taken into consideration when establishing the total number of voters, for the entire duration ordered by the ruling.


(2) The provisions of Article 85 (11) and (12) concerning the special ballot box shall apply accordingly to the persons in custody, detained based on a warrant for provisional detention or subject to the preventive measure of house arrest or to the persons serving a prison sentence, who have not lost their electoral rights, insofar as such a way of voting is requested. The procedure for exercising the right to vote by this category of voters shall be established by decision of the Central Electoral Bureau.


(3) Only the persons registered on the permanent electoral lists of the electoral constituency where elections take place shall vote under the terms of paragraph (2).