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Article 21
 

Informing the Voters


(1) No later than within ten days after the call of elections, the municipality shall publish information on the conditions of the right to vote and right to be elected on the official notice board of the municipality and at its website, if established. The municipality shall also publish the information according to the first sentence pursuant to a special regulation in the language of the national minority. The sample information shall be provided to the municipality by the Ministry of Interior through the District Office, and the Ministry of Interior shall publish it at its website.


(2) For elections to the European Parliament, no later than within ten days after the call of elections to the European Parliament, the municipality shall send information on the conditions of the right to vote and right to be elected to the voters, who are citizens of other Member State of the European Union. The sample information shall be provided to the municipality by the Ministry  of Interior. The Ministry of Interior shall publish the information pursuant to the first sentence in the Slovak language and in the English language at its website.


(3) No later than 25 days before the date of elections, the municipality shall deliver to each household a notice containing the time of elections, electoral district, polling station, a brief description of ballot paper modification, and the duty of the voter to prove their identity by an identity card before voting. The municipality shall also provide the information in the notice pursuant to a special regulation in the language of the national minority.


(4) Where detention and imprisonment take place (hereinafter the “penitentiary”), the penitentiary shall provide information on elections to the persons accused and convicted and it shall provably instruct them on the way of voting and on the right to vote pursuant to this Act in the conditions of the penitentiary. The penitentiary shall also instruct the persons accused and convicted on their right to ask in writing the municipality, in whose permanent electoral roll they are included, for the issuance and sending of a voter certificate, which is issued by the municipality pursuant to special parts of this Act. The form of application for that purpose shall be provided by the penitentiary.