Causes and procedures for changes to the electoral components’ extract

(amended by Law No.74/2012, dated 19 July 2012; point 3 repealed by Law No. 101/2020, dated 23 July)

1. The extract of electoral components shall be subject to additions, changes, or deletions, when, from the publication of the electoral components to the announcement of the voter list, a person who has reached or reaches 18 years of age on election date:

a) has acquired or relinquished Albanian citizenship;

b) is found incapable to act by a final court decision;

c) dies;

ç) one or more civil status components, wich constitute electoral components, change;

d) is registered more than once in the list;

dh) is registered in the wrong voting centre;

e) is not assigned in any voting centre;

ë) the polling unit is merged with another unit or the list is split in compliance with Article 62. 

2. In the event data, or one or more electoral components, of a voter need to be added, changed, or deleted, the request shall be made to the relevant civil status office, in compliance with the law on civil status and legal acts issued for its purpose, as follows:

a) in the case of letters “ç”, “d”, “dh” and “e” of point 1 of this Article, the request for changes to the electoral components shall be submitted by the citizen or an adult member of their family;

b) in the case of letters “a”, “b,” and “c” of point 1 of this Article, the request to add or delete the electoral components may be submitted by the citizen when they acquire citizenship, an adult member of the person’s family, the legal custodian, or the General Directorate of Civil Status on its own initiative or based on documentation submitted by third parties;

c) in the case of letter “d” of point 1 of this Article, the General Directorate of Civil Status shall have the right to request the relevant civil status office to delete the duplicate electoral component or the component that does not match the domicile as registered in the National Civil Status Register. Procedures on the identification and verification shall be determined by instruction of the minister responsible for the civil status service, through the use of all data in possession of the state, in accordance with the legislation in force;

ç) in the case of letter “ë” of point 1 of this Article, the change shall be made directly by the civil status office on the grounds of the decision taken in compliance with Article 62 by the mayor of the local government unit.

3. Repealed.