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Article 26
 

Rectification by the Population Register Centre or a local register office If the Population Register Centre or a local register office considers that someone has been unlawfully omitted from or included in the voting register, or if an entry in the register regarding someone is incorrect, it has an ex officio right to add the person to the register, list him or her as ineligible to vote or correct the relevant incorrect entry. Changes shall be made at the latest before 12 a.m. on the 12th day prior to the polling day.  A written decision shall be made when listing a person as ineligible to vote in the voting register; and served on the person concerned as provided in section 25 (2). However, no written decision shall be made if the person is deceased or has been pronounced dead after the establishment of the voting register. When adding a person to the voting register, a polling card shall be sent to him or her without delay. When correcting an incorrect entry in the register, the person concerned shall be notified without delay, unless this is clearly unnecessary. If the Population Register Centre has, before the voting register of the European Parliamentary elections gained legal force, received a notice from an authority in any other European Union Member State that a person listed as eligible to vote in the voting register has been listed in the electoral roll for the same elections in the said state, it shall without delay see to it that the person concerned is listed in the voting register as ineligible to vote.