Home > 2.1.4 Others > REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA – Electoral Code
 
 
 
Download file    
 
 
Article 136
 

Voting in a building of a municipality or/and other premises suitable for voting and agreed with the municipal administration


Voting in a building of a municipality or/and other premises suitable for voting and agreed with the municipal administration shall be organised by the constituency electoral committee or the municipal electoral committee. If a constituency comprises the territories of several municipalities, the voting shall be organised in the said municipalities. The chair of a constituency electoral committee or a municipal electoral committee shall appoint at least two members of the said constituency electoral committee, municipal electoral committee, or polling district committees to issue and collect ballot papers and voting envelopes. The said two persons may not be proposed by the same political organisation. The voting shall be supervised by the chair of the constituency electoral committee or of the municipal electoral committee or, on their instruction, by a member of the constituency electoral committee or of the municipal electoral committee. If the Chair of the Central Electoral Commission, a member of the Commission authorised by the Chair, or the chair of a constituency electoral committee or of the municipal electoral committee establishes, under the procedure laid down by the Central Electoral Commission, any cases of bribery of voters, conveyance of voters to vote, encouragement to vote for remuneration or other gross violations of the voter’s rights, they must suspend pre-poll voting until the violations are removed and it is possible to conduct free and democratic elections in accordance with the requirements of this Code.