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Article 62
 

Facilitating the Vote for Voters Unable to Come to the Polling Station

(1) A voter who is unable to come to the polling station due to a more serious illness, physical disability or infirmity, may inform the competent electoral commission thereof at least three days prior to the election or the election committee on the election day.
(2) The competent electoral commission shall submit the received requests from voters for voting away from the polling station referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, to competent election committees along with all of the electoral material.
(3) The election committee shall allow the voter who timely notified the electoral commission, or the election committee on the election day by 12.00, about their inability to come to the polling station, to vote at the address of their residence.
(4) By way of derogation from paragraph 3 of this Article, when the election committee has been notified on the election day, but after 12.00, that the voter who is unable to come to the polling station wishes to cast their vote, or if, in case of a timely notice sent by the voter under paragraph 3 of this Article, other circumstances should occur, on account of which the proper conduct of the election at the polling station would come into question, the election committee shall allow the voter to cast their vote at the address of their residence if the election committee assesses that voting in this manner would not impede the casting of votes at the polling station and if the technical conditions allow this.
(5) After the election committee confirms that the voter who submitted the request for voting away from the polling station has been registered in the electoral register excerpt delivered to the polling station, the election committee president shall assign at least two members of the election committee to visit the voter at the address of their residence and allow them to vote.
(6) The voter shall fold the ballot on which they cast their vote at least once, place it in a special envelope and close it. After returning to the polling station, a member of the election committee shall hand over the envelope to the president or the vice-president of the election committee.
(7) The president or the vice-president of the election committee shall immediately cast the folded ballot into the ballot box at the polling station.
(8) The voter coming to the polling station who, due to their disability, is unable to access the polling station shall be allowed to vote in front of the polling station and the provisions of paragraphs 5, 6 and 7 of this Article shall apply mutatis mutandis.
(9) In the minutes of the work of the election committee, the election committee shall explicitly record the voting referred to in Article 61, paragraph 2 of this Act and paragraphs 1 and 8 of this Article.