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Section 98
 

(1) The National Election Office shall keep a register of disfranchised citizens. The register shall contain data on legal adults and minors over the age of seventeen who:


a) were stripped of their right to vote due to a limited discretionary capacity for reasoning;


b) are undergoing forced medical treatment ordered in the course of a criminal procedure;


c) have been banned from exercising their civil rights;


d) are serving a term of imprisonment.


(1a) The register of disfranchised citizens shall contain data – listed in Annex 2/A. – on voters as specified in (1).


(2) For inclusion into the register of disfranchised citizens, or for deletion from that register,


a) the body keeping the register of persons under guardianship shall forward automatically to the National Election Office the data of persons under guardianship as specified by law and pursuant to (1) a);


b) the body keeping the register of convicted criminals shall forward automatically to the National Election Office the data of convicted criminals as specified by law and pursuant to (1) b)-d).


(3) For changes in data to be indicated in the register, the National Election Office shall keep the personal identification and address data in the register of disfranchised citizens up to date by regularly taking data from the records of citizens' personal data and addresses.


(4) If a citizen regains the right to vote, their data shall be deleted from the register of disfranchised citizens. The data of citizens removed from the register of disfranchised citizens shall be kept for six months after the removal.