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Article 41
 

Maintaining the Voter List


(1) The Voter Register shall be maintained by the State Election Commission, which is the only body responsible for its update.
(2) The Voter Register shall be maintained according to the Register of Citizens in the form of a Register of Electors, with automatic data processing on a magnetic medium. The State Election Commission shall have access to the databases of the state authorities that possess registers of citizens on various grounds.
(3) The citizens’ personal data shall be recorded in the Voter Register using the languages and alphabets in which the original records are kept, pursuant to the law.
(4) All citizens who have turned 18 years of age, with residence on the territory of the Republic of Macedonia and who possess a valid ID card or travel document shall be registered in the Voter Register.
(5) All citizens of the Republic of Macedonia who are temporarily employed or residing abroad, with residence on the territory of the Republic of Macedonia and with a valid travel document shall also be registered in the Voter List. These persons shall be registered according to their last residence in the Republic of Macedonia prior to their departure abroad.
(6) Citizens whose capacity to contract has been revoked with a final court decision shall not be registered in the Voter Register.
(7) Citizens shall be registered in the Voter Register according to the municipality where they reside.
(8) The Voter Register shall be used to prepare the Voter Lists for each electoral district, municipality and polling station.
(9) When elections are administered simultaneously, each polling station shall be issued as many signed Voter Lists as there are types of elections i.e. election rounds.
(10) The content of the Voter Register i.e. the Voter Lists cannot be changed on Election Day (first round) until the end of the elections.
(11) The funds for the updating and compiling of the Voter Register shall be provided from the Budget of the State Election Commission, pursuant to Article 26, paragraphs (7), (8) and (9).