Casting a vote in advance by hospital patients and prisoners

1 - Electors who are in the circumstances set forth in Article 79-B(1) can, by electronic means or by post, apply to the electoral administration of the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Internal Administration, by the twentieth day prior to that of the election, to cast their vote in advance. They must give the number of their civil identification document and attach documentary proof of the impediment they are invoking, issued by the attending physician and confirmed by the management of the hospital, or a document issued by the director of the prison, as appropriate.
2 - By the seventeenth day prior to that of the election, the electoral administration of the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Internal Administration shall send the mayor of the municipality where the electors in the circumstances stated in paragraph 1 are located, by registered mail with notification of receipt, the list of the names of the electors, and places involved, along with the number of voting slips, and white and blue envelopes.
3 - By the sixteenth day before that of the election, the mayor of the municipality where the hospital or prison where the elector is an in-patient or a prison inmate will give notice of the lists competing in the election in compliance with the provisions in Article 79-B(4), informing which are the establishments where advance voting will take place.
4 - The mayor must be advised of the appointment of the delegates of the lists by the fourteenth day before that of the election.
5 - Between the thirteenth and the tenth days prior to that of the election, on a date and at a time previously announced to the respective director and to the delegates of the lists, the mayor will go to the hospital or prison that is taking care of the electors in the circumstances mentioned in paragraph 1, to comply, with such changes as may be dictated by the constraints of the hospital or prison systems in question, with the provisions in paragraphs 8 to 15 of the preceding article.
6 - The mayor may in exceptional circumstances be replaced, for the purpose of the action provided for in the preceding paragraph, by any duly accredited councillor from the municipality.
7 - The hospitals and prisons caring for the electors covered by paragraph 1 must ensure the conditions required for casting a vote in advance are in place.