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Article 60
 

Concluding the advance voting The voter must present the election official, or in an institution, the electoral commission with the folded ballot to be stamped, and,when the ballot is stamped, enclose it in the ballot envelope immediately in front of the election authorities. The closed ballot envelope, on which no markings are to be made, and the signed covering letter must after this be given to the election official or the electoral commission. When the voting register is used at the advance polling station, the election official or the electoral commission: checks from the register that the voter has the right to vote  makes a mark in the register that the voter has used his or her right to vote; and  marks in the covering letter in a manner determined by the Ministry of Justice that the mark referred to in 2 is made in the register (proof of receipt of the covering letter), in which case if the voting is held at an institution, the name of the institution must not be shown on the proof of receipt of the covering letter. When the voting register is not in use in the advance polling station, a list of the voters must be kept.