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Article 24
 

(1) Each person having the right to vote shall be registered in the electoral list of that place (community, precinct) where he has his principal residence on the qualifying date. For persons having the right to vote who live abroad the place of their being registered in the electoral list shall be determined by the entries in the voters’ records.

(2) Each person having the right to vote shall only be registered once in the electoral lists.

(3) Persons having the right to vote who are called for military service or alternative national service shall be registered in the electoral list of that community where they used to have their principal residence before having been called, unless they changed their residence during their military or alternative national service.

(4) If a person having the right to vote is registered in the electoral list of several places (communities, precincts), he shall be deleted immediately from the electoral list where he was wrongly registered. The person having the right to vote and the community in which he keeps being registered shall be immediately notified.