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Article 56
 

The election board may not prevent any person who is listed on the register of electors from casting a vote unless said person has waived the right to vote in this polling section and cast a vote at another location.

The election board may not allow any person who is not listed on the register of electors to cast a vote unless said person can prove with an attest that his/her name is listed on the register of electors for another polling section in the same municipality where he/she has waived the right to vote; the attest must be issued by the subordinate election board of that polling section. A subordinate election board, or the chairman of a subordinate election board on its behalf, issuing such an attest must enter this in the record book of the subordinate election board and the original shall be submitted, with the record book of that election board where it is presented and used, to the presiding election board; it shall also be noted in that record book, with the name and address of the voter specified. An attest shall also be valid if signed by the leader or administrator of the municipal council on its behalf. The subordinate election board of a polling section should be notified before election day of what voters in the polling section have been given an attest by the municipal council.