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Article 41
 

(1) The Voter List shall be maintained by the State Election Commission, which is solely responsible for its update.


(2) The Voter List shall be maintained according to the Registry of Citizens in the form of a Registry of Voters, with automatic data processing on a magnetic medium. The State Election Commission shall have access to the database of the state organs which have at disposal registries of citizens on various grounds.


(3) The personal data of the citizens in the Voters List shall be written in the languages and alphabets in which the original records are kept, in accordance with Law.


(4) All citizens who are 18 years old have residence on the territory of the Republic of Macedonia and who have a valid personal ID card or passport shall be registered in the Voters List.
(5) All citizens of the Republic of Macedonia, who are temporarily employed or residing abroad, with a residence on the territory of the Republic of Macedonia and with a valid passport, shall also be registered in the Voters List. These persons shall be registered according to their last place of residence in the Republic of Macedonia, prior to their departure abroad.


(6) Citizens who have been deprived of their working capacity with a final court decision shall not be registered in the Voters List.


(7) In the Voters List, the citizens shall be registered according to the municipality where they reside.


(8) Excerpts of the Voters List shall be prepared for each electoral district, municipality and polling station.


(9) In cases when different election processes are being administered simultaneously, each polling station shall receive as many signed excerpts of the voters list as the number of election i.e. election rounds.


(10) The contents of the Voters List i.e. the excerpts (first round) as issued on Election Day cannot be changed until the end of the elections.


(11) The resources for updating and compiling the Voter List shall be provided by the Budget of the State Election Commission, in line with Article 26 paragraph (7), (8) and (9).