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Article 72
 

Polls in Military Units


1. Voters performing mandatory military shall be entitled to vote in the military units where they serve. Voters who perform active military service, civil service or work under the employment contract in international military operations abroad, shall be entitled to vote in military units stationed abroad, which participate in those international military operations. The time and procedure for voting in military units stationed abroad shall be laid down by the Central Electoral Commission on the recommendation of the Minister of National Defence.


2. A constituency electoral committee shall, not later than 15 days prior to an election day and upon the recommendation of the commanders of military units stationed in the territory of the Republic of Lithuania, draw up a list of special post offices and, upon 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 paragraph 1 of Article 67 of this Law.


3. The commanders of military units shall draw up a list of voters voting in a special post office. The following must be indicated in a list of voters voting in a special post office: voter’s name and surname, personal number, constituency (name and number), whether or not a voter has a poll card. The commander of a military unit shall transfer a list of voters voting in a special post office to a constituency electoral committee, receive poll cards from it or print them according to the date received via electronic means of communication and ensure the delivery of the cards to voters, allot the premises suitable for voting, and be responsible that the voters would be notified about the working place and time of a special post office, and that the conditions would be created for voters to reach it. In 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 military units stationed abroad) shall create conditions for voters to go to another special post office for voting or on the election day to travel to a polling district on the electoral roll of which they have been entered.


4. The provisions of Article 67 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.