(1) The election office shall examine voting documents that arrive within the time limit.

(2) When examining voting documents, the election office shall check received voting documents without opening the inner envelope containing the ballot paper. The election office shall check the content of the identification statement on the basis of the postal voter electoral register. If necessary, the National Election Office shall check the content of the identification statement by way of direct access to the relevant register according to the official identity verification card and also in the register of personal data and address of citizens.

(3) A voting document shall be invalid if

a)  the return envelope is not sealed,

b) the identification statement or the inner envelope is missing from the return envelope,

c) there is more than one inner envelope for the same election in the return envelope,

d) the inner envelope is not sealed,

e) the data of the voter included in the statement are incomplete or the signature of the voter is missing from the statement,

f) the citizen is not recorded in the postal voter electoral register,

g) the voter already submitted a voting document,

h) the data of the voter indicated in the identification statement are different from the data recorded in the electoral register or register under paragraph (2), with the exception of a difference referred to in paragraph (4),

i) the voting document is late.

(4) The following shall not render the voting document invalid:

a) the voting document is in an outer envelope other than that sent by the National Election Office,

b) the return envelope is damaged to a lesser extent, but documents cannot be put in and removed from it and the data content filled in the identification statement or the ballot paper cannot be accessed without opening the return envelope.

(5) Where the identity of the voter can be established beyond reasonable doubt, the return envelope shall not be considered invalid if the reason for the difference in data under paragraph (3) h) is caused by any of the following:

a) change of name that happened in the meantime,

b) accent error,

c) spelling difference,

d) specification of a geographic name in a foreign language,

e) in data provided under section 278 (2) a), theomission of one of multiple given names, the omission or inclusion of the “dr.” title, the inclusion of a junior, senior, widowed or other prefix or an abbreviation thereof; or the provision of data in another language.

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(7) For the purposes of paragraph (3) g), a voting document can be considered a voting document already submitted by the voter only if the identity of the voter can be established beyond reasonable doubt on the basis of the relevant identification statement.

(8) If the identity of the voter can be established beyond reasonable doubt on the basis of the identification statement, the election office shall indicate this fact in the central electoral register.