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Article 51
 

(1) Additional electoral lists shall be drawn up in the cases referred to by this law and they shall include the elements referred to in Article 49 paragraphs (5) and (6), where appropriate. The additional electoral lists shall be signed by the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station where they have been drawn up.


(2) The additional electoral lists used in the polling stations in the country shall include, entered by the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station, the following persons:


a) the persons going to the polls and proving to be domiciled or residing within the jurisdiction of the respective polling station, but who have been omitted from the permanent electoral list;


b) the persons going to the polls and proving to be residing within the jurisdiction of the respective polling station, but who have not requested to be registered in the Electoral Register with their residential address;


c) the persons who, on the day of the vote, are in a different administrative-territorial unit than the one of their domicile or residence and who prove to be domiciled or residing within the jurisdiction of the electoral constituency where the respective polling station is located;


d) the members of the electoral bureaus of the polling stations and computer operators, if domiciled or residing within the jurisdiction of the electoral constituency where the respective polling station is located;


e) the persons responsible for ensuring the order or for monitoring those in charge of maintaining the order, if domiciled or residing within the jurisdiction of the electoral constituency where the respective polling station is located;


f) the candidates, if they stand as candidates in the respective electoral constituency.


(2) The additional electoral lists used in the polling stations abroad shall include, entered by the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station, the following persons:


a) the persons going to the polls in the polling stations set up with Romania’s diplomatic missions, consular offices, consular sections and cultural institutes abroad and proving to be domiciled or residing abroad, who are not on the permanent electoral lists of the polling stations abroad;


b) the staff of diplomatic missions and consular offices, consular sections and cultural institutes abroad;


c) the members of the electoral bureaus of the polling stations and computer operators abroad, if domiciled or residing abroad;


d) the candidates, if they stand as candidates in the respective electoral constituency abroad.


(4) Objections filed concerning the additional electoral lists shall be settled by the electoral bureau of the polling station, by decision.


(5) Within the polling stations set up apart from the diplomatic missions, the consular offices, the consular sections or the cultural institutes abroad, there shall be utilised only additional electoral lists.*


(6) In the polling stations abroad set up outside Romania’s diplomatic missions and consular offices, consular sections and cultural institutes abroad, only the voters enlisted in the permanent electoral lists and the members of the electoral bureau of the polling station, as well as the computer operators, referred to by this law, can exercise their right to vote.


* Amended by Law No. 148/2019.