Casting a mobile vote in advance in national territory

1 – The electors referred to in Article 79-A shall exercise their right to vote at a mobile polling station established for this purpose in accordance with Article 40-B.

2 – Electors who intend to cast a mobile vote in advance must make this intention known by the postal or electronic means provided for this purpose by the electoral administration of the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Home Affairs between the fourteenth and tenth days prior to that of the election.

3 – The expression of intention to vote in advance must include the following information:
a) Full name of the elector;
b) Date of birth;
c) Civil identification document number;
d) Address;
e) Municipality where they intend to cast their mobile vote in advance;
f) Telephone contact and, where possible, email address.

4 – If there is any non-conformity in the data provided, the elector will be contacted by the electoral administration of the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Home Affairs within 24 hours, by electronic means or by post, with a view to clarifying it.

5 – The electoral administration of the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Home Affairs shall inform the mayors of the list of names of the electors who have opted for this mode of voting in their area of jurisdiction.

6 – The electoral administration of the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Home Affairs, through the security forces, shall arrange for voting slips to be sent to the mayors of the municipalities indicated by the electors pursuant to paragraph (3).

7 – To cast their vote, the elector shall go to their chosen polling station on the seventh day prior to that of the election, where they shall identify themselves by showing their civil identification document, indicating the parish on whose electoral roll they are registered.

8 – The presiding officer gives the voter the voting slip for their constituency and two envelopes, one white and one blue.

9 – The white envelope shall hold the voting slip and the blue envelope shall hold the white envelope and must contain spaces for filling in the name, civil identification number, municipality, parish and registration office used in the electoral registration.

10 – The voter shall complete the voting slip under conditions that guarantee voting secrecy, fold it into four, place it in the white envelope, and close it properly.

11 – The white envelope shall then be inserted in the blue envelope, which shall then be closed, legibly filled in and sealed with a security sticker, in a model to be approved by order of the General Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs.

12 – The presiding officer shall give the voter the duplicate of the sticker affixed to the blue envelope, which serves as proof that the vote has been cast.

13 – Once the voting operations have been completed, the officers shall draw up the minutes of the operations carried out, in as many copies as necessary, for the chairs of the general counting assemblies, sending them to the mayors for that purpose.

14 – The minutes referred to in the preceding paragraph must state the number of electors who cast their vote there in advance, explicitly stating the voter's name, the number of the civil identification document and the parish where they are registered, attaching the list of names of the voters registered to cast their vote at that polling station and any relevant events that should appear in the general terms.

15 – On the day after that of the advance voting procedure, the security forces shall collect the electoral material from the mobile polling stations over the whole national territory, for delivery to the local mayors, who shall arrange for it to be forwarded to the parish councils where the electors are registered.

16 – The recipient parish council of the votes received shall forward them to the presiding officer of the polling station by the day and time established in Article 41.