Voter Certificate

(1) On demand, the municipality shall issue a voter certificate to the voter who cannot vote in the electoral district, in whose electoral roll they are registered, and it shall delete the voter from the electoral roll with a note about the issuance of the voter certificate.

(2) The voter may apply for the issuance of the voter certificate in person no later than on the last business day before the election date during the municipality’s office hours. The municipality shall issue the voter certificate without undue delay.

(3) The voter may apply for the issuance of the voter certificate in paper form so that the application for the issuance of the voter certificate is delivered to the municipality no later than within 15 business days before the date of elections. The application must contain data on the voter pursuant to Article 9 (3). It is possible to apply for the issuance of the voter certificate by proxy no later than on the last business day before the election date.

(4) The voter may apply for the issuance of the voter certificate in electronic form no later than within 15 business days before the date of elections. For these purposes, the municipality publishes the electronic address for the delivery of applications at its website. If the municipality has no website, it shall publish the electronic address for the delivery of applications on the official notice board of the municipality. The application must contain

a) data on the voter pursuant to Article 9 (3),

b) the correspondence address, to which the municipality will deliver the voter certificate.

(5) The municipality shall send the voter certificate to the voter’s permanent address unless other correspondence address is provided in the application, no later than within three business days after the delivery of the application.

(6) If in the paper application or electronic application, the voter states that the voter certificate will be taken over by other person, the application must contain name, surname and identity card number of such person. The person shall be obliged to confirm the take-over of the voter certificate by signature.

(7) The forms of voter certificates shall be provided by the Ministry of Interior. The Ministry of Interior shall deliver voter certificates to municipalities through District Offices. The voter certificate also in the language of the national minority shall be delivered to municipalities by the District Office pursuant to a special regulation. The form of voter certificate must contain security features and a place for voter’s data pursuant to Article 9 (3). The municipality shall attach the municipality’s official seal to the voter certificate. Further, the voter certificate must contain place for the data on the name and surname of the person issuing it, their signature, date of issuance and place for the data on the elections.

(8) The municipality shall keep records of the issued voter certificates. The record-keeping shall contain the number of the voter certificate, data on the voter pursuant to Article 9 (3) and the date of issuance. The record-keeping shall include the application of the voter for the issuance of a voter certificate.

(9) The voter certificate authorises the voter to be registered in the electoral roll in any electoral district.