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Section 60
 

Conclusion of advance voting 


The voter shall give the folded ballot to the election official or, in an institution, to the electoral commission to be stamped and, immediately after the ballot is stamped, enclose it in the ballot envelope in front of the election authority. The closed ballot envelope, on which no markings are to be made, and the signed covering letter shall thereafter be given to the election official or the electoral commission.


When the voting register is used at the advance polling station, the election official or the chairperson of the electoral commission shall:


1)  check in the register that the voter has the right to vote;


2)  make an entry in the register indicating that the voter has used his or her right to vote;and


3) make a marking on the covering letter in the manner determined by the Ministry of Justice indicating that the entry referred to in paragraph 2 has been made in the register(marking on the covering letter), in which case the name of the institution, if the voting has been conducted in an institution, shall not be indicated on the marking.


When the voting register is not used at the advance polling station, a list of voters shall be kept.