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Article 45
 

(1) For the voters throughout the country who cannot be moved for reasons of illness or invalidity, at the written request thereof, submitted on the day prior to the elections at the latest, along with copies of medical documents or other official documents to certify that the persons in question are not movable, the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station may approve that a team made up of at least two members of the electoral bureau goes with a special ballot box and the material required for voting - the stamp marked “VOTAT”, the ballot papers and the sticker stamps required so that the voting may be carried out. Within the jurisdiction of a polling station there shall be used only one special ballot box. The special ballot box may be carried only by the members of the electoral bureau of the polling station. The special ballot box may be moved around only within the territorial area assigned to the respective polling station.


(2) The provisions of paragraph (1) shall be applied accordingly to the persons who on the voting day are in the country and who because of the specific activity they conduct cannot come to the polling station.


(3) In the cases provided by paragraph (1) the voting shall be based on the excerpt from the electoral rolls.


(4) The procedure of exercising the right to vote by the persons detained, based on a preventive arrest warrant, or by the persons that are serving a custodial sentence, but have not lost their electoral rights, shall be established by decision of the Central Electoral Bureau. The provisions of paragraphs (1) and (2) shall apply accordingly.


(5) By way of derogation from the provisions of paragraph (1), in case in a penitentiary the exercise of the right to vote by means of a special ballot box is required by more than 400 people held in detention, the applications for voting by means of a special ballot box may be submitted no later than the day preceding the voting, at several polling stations in the locality where the penitentiary is located, established by decision of the electoral county bureau or of the electoral bureau of the district of Bucharest Municipality, as applicable.


(6) By way of derogation from the provisions of paragraph (1), the applications for voting by means of a special ballot box set out by the persons entitled to vote who are hospitalized may be submitted no later than the day preceding the voting, at several polling stations in the locality where the hospital is located, established by decision of the electoral county bureau or of the electoral bureau of the district of Bucharest Municipality, as applicable.