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Article 53
 

Delivering documents and election stamps The Ministry of Justice shall well before the beginning of advance voting deliver, with the appropriate instructions, advance voting documents and forms for lists of voters to the election officials of general advance polling stations in Finland and the municipal election committees to be forwarded to election commissions. These documents and forms shall also be delivered to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs to be forwarded to Finnish diplomatic missions serving as advance polling stations and to the masters of Finnish ships. The municipal central election committee shall deliver election stamps to the election officials of general advance polling stations in the municipality and to the election commissions. The central election committee of the city of Helsinki shall also deliver stamps to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs to be forwarded to diplomatic missions and masters of ships. The master of the ship shall order the advance voting documents, the forms for the lists of voters and the election stamp from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs or from a Finnish diplomatic mission.