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Section 277
 

(1) The National Election Office shall send by mail the postal voting packages to voters recorded in the postal voter electoral register, other than those who requested to receive the postal voting in person, after the postal ballot paper is prepared without delay. If for the receipt of the ballot paper a voter provided an address that is in a country that prohibits dual nationality, the National Election Office shall deliver the postal voting package with assistance from the diplomatic mission.


(2) Voters with no address in Hungary who, pursuant to section 92 (2) b), requested, by the twenty-fifth day before voting day, to receive the postal voting package in person may receive the postal voting package at the time determined by the president of the National Election Office from the fifteenth day before voting day, or during the period of voting on voting day, at the election office


a) of the settlement of the seat of the parliamentary single-member constituency,


b) of another settlement designated by the Minister in a decree, or


c) of a diplomatic mission specified by the Minister in a decree


in accordance with his choice.


(3) The president of the National Election Office shall provide for the receipt of the postal voting package in person under paragraph (2) so as to ensure that such a receipt is possible at least between 9.00 and 16.00 on working days from the fifteenth day before voting day. The president of the National Election Office may move the beginning or the end of the period between 9.00 and 16.00 to an earlier or later time, respectively, and he may extend the possibility of receipt in person to Saturdays not qualifying as working days as well as to Sundays and also public holidays.