Organisation of a poll at home

1. Only the following persons may vote at home: voters with disabilities, persons providing nursing care (assistance) for persons with disabilities at home, voters with temporary working incapacity due to illness, and voters aged 70 and over who are unable to turn out at the polling district on polling day because of their health condition, provided they have submitted a voter’s request of the form set out by the Central Electoral Commission for voting at home and have been entered on the home voting electoral roll. Voters who are in self-isolation because of the circumstances specified in Article 139(3) and who have submitted a voter’s request of the form set out by the Central Electoral Commission for voting at home may vote at home. Electoral committee members, when distributing poll cards, must hand them personally to those voters who are entitled to vote at home, except for the voters who are in self-isolation.

2. Requests for voting at home from voters, except for the voters who are in self-isolation, shall be submitted to polling district electoral committees. Requests for voting at home from voters entered on the electoral roll of a polling district shall start being accepted by telephone, via electronic mail and written applications at the time when the voters are served with poll cards and shall end on the last Wednesday before polling day. The requests for voting at home from voters who are temporarily staying on the territory of a certain polling district but have not been entered on the electoral roll of that polling district shall be accepted until the last Tuesday before polling day. The voters who are unable to complete a request for voting at home or to hand it to a polling district electoral committee because of their disability may authorise their family member, neighbour, a caretaker, or a committee member to carry out the said steps on their behalf. The latter authorised persons shall sign the voter’s request and indicate their full name and personal number therein.

3. Requests of voters in self-isolation to vote at home shall be submitted under the procedure and within the time limits laid down by the Central Electoral Commission. Voting of voters in self-isolation shall be organised by a specific group of electoral committee members set up by the constituency electoral committee or the municipal electoral committee, which consists of at least two members of that constituency electoral committee, municipal electoral committee or electoral committee of this constituency, municipal electoral committee(s).

4. On the last Thursday before polling day, a polling district electoral committee shall draw up and approve a home voting electoral roll of voter who have been entered on the electoral roll of that polling district. On the last Wednesday before polling day, a constituency electoral committee or a municipal electoral committee shall draw up and approve a roll of voters who reside or are temporarily staying on the territory of a certain polling district but have been entered on the electoral roll of another polling district instead of being entered on the electoral roll of this polling district when updating it.
5. At least two members of the polling district committee shall, within the time limits set out in Article 134(5), deliver the covering envelopes and ballot papers to the homes of the voters voting at home who are voters of the polling district concerned and are entered on the electoral roll of voters of that polling district.

6. At least two members of the constituency electoral committee or municipal electoral committee, or, on the instruction of the chair of the said committee, at least two members of the polling district electoral committee shall, within the time-limit set out in Article 134 (5), deliver the voting envelopes and ballot papers to the homes of the voters voting at home who are entered on the electoral roll of voters of the constituency or municipality concerned who vote at home, but are not entered on the electoral roll of voters of the polling district of their temporary stay. After the close of poll, the sealed covering envelopes shall be transferred to the constituency electoral committee or the municipal electoral committee.

7. The schedule of arrivals of electoral committee members to voter homes shall be approved by the chair of a polling district electoral committee, of a constituency electoral committee, or of a municipal electoral committee no later than 12 a.m. on the last Wednesday or Thursday before polling day. This schedule shall be public. Its copy shall be posted on the billboard of the polling district electoral committee, of the constituency electoral committee, or of the municipal electoral committee on the day the schedule is approved. The schedules shall also be published on the website of the Central Electoral Commission. Only the electoral committee members and election observers proposed by different political organisations may visit the homes of the voters who vote at home.