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Article 19
 

“Article 19a. § 1. In Part B of the Central Register of Voters, voters residing permanently in the area of a municipality are included in the permanent electoral precinct appropriate for the address of permanent residence, if they submit an application to this effect to the municipality office appropriate for their place of residence.


§ 2. The application referred to in § 1 shall contain: surname, name(s), nationality, passport or other identity document number of the applicant, PESEL personal identification number of the applicant and a statement as to the address of permanent residence.


§ 3. In the application referred to in § 1, the voter may include an e-mail address or mobile phone number, as well as information on consent to the transfer of data to the register of contact information of natural persons.


§ 4. If, at the time of filing the application referred to in § 1, the applicant does not have a PESEL personal identification number, in order to have PESEL personal identification number assigned, the application shall additionally contain the data referred to in Article 8 point 9 and 24a of the Act of 24 September 2010 on the Population Register, and, if available, the data referred to in Article 8 points 3-5, 7, 8, 12 and 13 of that Act.


§ 5. The application referred to in § 1 may be submitted in writing recorded in:


1)           paper form, bearing a handwritten signature;


2)           electronic form, bearing a qualified electronic signature or a trusted profile signature, using an electronic service made available by the minister responsible for computerisation, after authentication of the applicant in the manner specified in Article 20a paragraph 1 of the Act of 17 February 2005 on Computerisation of the Bodies Performing Public Tasks.


§ 6. A voter whose data is included in Part B of the Central Register of Voters may be deleted from the Central Register of Voters at his request submitted to the municipality office appropriate for his place of residence.


§ 7. The application referred to in § 6 shall include: surname, name(s) and PESEL personal identification number of the applicant.


§ 8. The application referred to in § 6 may be submitted in writing recorded in:


1)           paper form, bearing a handwritten signature;


2)           electronic form, bearing a qualified electronic signature or a trusted profile signature, using electronic means of communication in the manner specified in the Act of 17 February 2005 on Computerisation of the Bodies Performing Public Tasks.


§ 9. In case of discrepancies between the data in the application referred to in § 1 and the data in the PESEL personal identification number, the mayor shall clarify the discrepancies within 7 days.


§ 10. The provisions of § 1-9 shall apply accordingly to a voter not residing anywhere, staying permanently in the area of the municipality, with the proviso that this voter, in place of his address of permanent residence, shall provide an address at which it will be possible for employees of the municipality office to contact him.”;