Voting procedure

1. A voter who has turned out to vote shall present one of the following valid documents to a member of the polling district committee: an identity card, a passport, a driving licence or any other identity proof issued by a state institution or a body authorised by it.

2. After confirming the identity of the person, the member of the polling district committee shall verify whether the voter entered on the electoral roll of the respective polling district, and shall mark in the electronic electoral roll that the voter has participated in the polling process. If, upon arriving at the polling station, a person has required documents or it remains uncertain whether they are entered on the electoral roll of the respective polling district, the committee member shall refrain from issuing an arrival card to this person. Instead, the person shall be issued a guest card and referred to the committee chair or deputy chair for clarification of their voting status.

3. On polling day, voters who have not voted yet may, under the procedure laid down by the Central Electoral Commission, vote in another polling district of their constituency or municipality, given all the polling districts of that constituency or municipality have access to electronic electoral roll, provided the polling district electoral committees can confirm that the voter has not voted in any of the polling districts, and provided the electoral committee of the polling district on whose electoral roll the said voter is entered confirms that an entry has been made in the electoral roll of this polling district that the said voter has turned out to vote at another polling district and the voter’s vote, if received by a voting envelope, will not be counted.

4. After marking in the electronic electoral roll that a voter has turned out to vote, a member of the polling district committee shall issue the voter with an arrival card stamped with the seal of the polling district. The arrival card shall indicate the sequential number assigned to the voter among all the voters who have participated in the polling process. The said member of the polling district committee shall tell the voter which member of the electoral committee should be addressed for getting the ballot papers. It shall be prohibited to hand multiple arrival cards to a single voter or to provide a voter with another voter’s arrival card.

5. After verifying, either through the presented documents or written testimony addressed to the chair of the electoral committee by two other persons entered on the electoral roll of the same polling district, that the person who has turned out to vote is in fact the person entered on the electoral roll of that polling district, the designated member of the polling district electoral committee responsible for distributing ballot papers to voters shall find the surname of the voter on the electoral roll and collect the arrival card from the individual concerned. The voter shall receive the ballot paper(s) after the voter and the designated member of the electoral committee responsible for distributing the ballot papers to voters sign in the electoral roll of the polling district. The arrival card shall not be returned to the voter. Every voter may receive only the ballot paper(s) that are intended for that particular voter, with the exception of the case provided for in Article 143(4).

6. The ballot paper(s) shall be completed in the secret polling booth. Completing ballot papers outside the secret polling booth shall be prohibited. Only one person may be present in a secret polling booth, with the exception of the case provided for in Article 143(4).

7. It shall be prohibited to make the marked ballot paper(s) public.