Production, delivery and accounting of election documents

1. The Central Electoral Commission shall be responsible for the publishing of election documents and their delivery within the time limits specified in the Code. The procedure for accounting for ballot papers, special labels and voting envelopes shall be laid down by the Central Electoral Commission, which shall also manage this accounting.

2. Constituency and municipal electoral committees shall deliver ballot papers, voting envelopes and special labels to the polling district electoral committees least 12 hours before the poll on polling day or before the poll in declared polling places and at home.

3. At the diplomatic missions and consular posts of the Republic of Lithuania, voters must be provided with free access to ballot papers and voting envelopes at least 20 days before polling day. Aboard the ships sailing under the national flag of Lithuania, voters must be provided with free access to the text of ballot papers not less than 15 days before polling day.

4. Accounting of voting envelopes, special labels and ballot papers, their issuing and acceptance when voting at home and at declared polling places shall be managed by the chairs of the polling district electoral committees. Accounting for, issue and acceptance of voting envelopes and ballot papers used when voting in military units deployed abroad shall be managed by the commanders of the said units. The commanders of the military units shall transfer to the Central Electoral Commission the accounting data on election documents, as well as the unused covering envelopes, ballot papers, and covering envelopes with the completed ballot papers. The Central Electoral Commission shall, no later than polling day, forward the received voting envelopes with
the ballot papers marked by voters to the electoral committees of the respective constituencies or municipalities on whose electoral rolls the voters concerned are entered.

5. Postal service providers shall deliver voting envelopes containing the ballot papers marked by the voters to the constituency or municipal electoral committees on polling day, but no later than by 11 am, and the constituency or municipal electoral committees shall forward them to the respective polling district electoral committees before the close of poll.

6. The covering envelopes as well as unused and spoilt ballot papers of the voters who voted on the last Thursday before polling day shall be transferred to a constituency electoral committee or a municipal electoral committee by the members of the electoral committees who appeared at the homes of the voters pursuant to the provisions of Article 138. The constituency electoral committee or the municipal electoral committee shall, no later than on the last Friday before polling day, deliver the covering envelopes to the postal service providers.

7. The covering envelopes as well as unused and spoilt ballot papers of the voters who voted on the last Friday or Saturday before polling day shall be transferred to the chair of a polling district electoral committee no later than by 9 pm of the same day. After examining the received election documents, the polling district electoral committee shall decide whether or not voting at home has met the requirements of this Code.