Voting outside polling station

A voter who is unable to vote at the polling station due to a serious illness, age or disability can vote outside the polling station, within the area covered by the polling station, if he/she notifies local electoral commission thereof no earlier than 72 hours before the day of voting and no later than 11 a.m. on the day of voting, or the polling board on the day of voting, no later than 11 a.m.

Until the opening of polling stations, the local electoral commission shall publish on its website the total number of voters from its area who have informed it by the day of voting that they want to vote outside the polling station.

The polling board shall assign three of its members (polling board commissioners) who were appointed at the proposal of different authorized nominators to go to voters who vote outside the polling station, where they would establish such voter’s identity, perform a UV lamp check, and deliver him/her a certificate of the right to vote outside the polling station.

After a voter who votes outside the polling station signs the certificate of the right to vote outside the polling station, he hands it over to the polling board commissioners, who then mark index finger of his/her right hand, or another finger, as appropriate, using ink spray, and hand him/her a ballot paper, collective electoral list and a special envelope in which he/she will put the completed ballot.

After that, polling board commissioners shall instruct the voter who votes outside the polling station about the manner of voting and leave the room where he/she is.

Thereafter the voter who votes outside the polling station shall fill in the ballot paper, fold it and insert in a special envelope which the polling board commissioners shall seal in front of him/her and put it together with the certificate of the right to vote outside the polling station in the official envelope.

Immediately upon returning to the polling station, the polling board commissioners shall hand over the official envelope to the polling board, which shall open it and check whether inside it there is a signed certificate of right to vote outside the polling station, and if such certificate is there, shall circle the ordinal number under which related voter is entered in the excerpt from the electoral roll, and put a note on the signature line in the excerpt from the electoral roll that the voter has voted outside the polling station, open the sealed envelope, take out the folded ballot paper and insert it thus folded into the ballot box.

If there is no certificate of the right to vote outside the polling station inside the official envelope or if this certificate is not signed, it shall be considered that the voter did not vote, and the special envelope with the ballot paper inside it shall not be opened, but shall be placed in the storage sack for the election material together with unused ballots papers.