In Norway, all electors may vote in advance for parliamentary and municipal elections, both at home and abroad. Advance voting must take place no later than the last Friday before election day. Advance voting at home takes place in health and social welfare institutions, where the Electoral Committee in each municipality decides and at their homes, on application by disabled people to the Electoral Committee. Abroad advance voting takes place at Norwegian Foreign Service missions and where the Ministry decides. In both cases, voting in advance is not possible except in the presence of one (sometimes two) official returning officer(s). If an elector abroad has no possibility of going to a returning officer, he may cast his or her vote by mail without the presence of a returning officer at the casting of the vote. In this case, the voter is personally responsible for voting in advance at such a time as makes it possible for his or her advance vote to reach the Electoral Committee by 8.00 p.m. on election day (law on the Representation of the People, 2002, § 8-2 [3]).