§ 1. Voting takes place using official ballots.

§ 2. The ballot shall contain information on how to vote and conditions of the validity of the vote.

§ 3. The ballot can be printed only on one side. The size and type of font and the size of boxes intended for the placing of the "x" shall be the same for all the lists and candidate names.

§ 3a. Ballot paper in elections to the Sejm, elections to the European Parliament, elections to the municipal council in a municipality with more than 20,000 inhabitants, elections to the council district of the capital city of Warsaw, elections to the county council, elections to the regional province council may, if necessary, consist of an appropriate number of one-side printed, permanently stapled pages, where:

1)       the first page of the ballot paper shall contain the appropriate title ("Ballot paper in elections ...") and clear information on the voting method and the conditions of voting validity;

2)       on the second page of the ballot paper there is a table of contents containing the names of registered electoral committees in the order of drawn numbers, with an indication of the number of the ballot paper card, on which the list of candidates of a given electoral committee, and the graphic symbol of the electoral committee;

3)       on the third and subsequent pages of the ballot papers are placed individual lists of candidates for each of the electoral committees, taking into account the requirements set out in § 3, second sentence, and the graphic symbol of the electoral committee.

§ 3b. (repealed)

§ 4. The ballot card shall have a place for the official seal of the election commission and, further in the case of elections:

1)       for the President of the Republic - the imprint of the seal of the National Election Commission;

2)       to the Sejm, the Senate and the European Parliament – a stamp of the district election commission;

3)       to the council and mayor elections – stamp of the territorial election commission.

§ 5. Templates of ballots are determined by the National Election Commission.

§ 6. Ballot papers are considered as election documents within the meaning of art. 8.