(1) With a view to facilitating the exercise of the right to vote for persons being cared for and accommodated in public or private convalescence and nursery homes, the community electoral authority and the city council in Vienna can establish one or more special precincts for the local area of the institution building. The provisions of §§ 52 to 54 shall be observed accordingly.
(2) If precincts are established according to al. 1, the patients who are able to walk shall exercise their right to vote in the polling stations of the appropriate precinct electoral authority according to al. 1. The same applies to patients being able to walk who cast their vote by means of electoral card.
(3) The appropriate precinct electoral authority according to al. 1, together with their auxiliary personnel and the election witnesses, can also go to the bedrooms of the bedridden patients in order to collect their votes. In such case it shall be ensured by appropriate equipment (for instance by setting up of a folding screen and the like) that the patient is able to fill out his ballot and put it into the voting envelope, to be given to him by the polling officer, unviewed by all other people present in the bedroom.
(4) Moreover, when exercising the right to vote according to al. 2 and 3 the provisions of this federal law, in particular those of §§ 39 and 40, and 68 and 70 on the participation in the election and the exercise of the right to vote by means of electoral card, shall be applied accordingly.
