(1) For the voters referred to in Section 32 of this Law who are located in the Republic of Latvia outside the territory of the electoral district in the electoral roll of which they are registered, voting shall be organised in accordance with the procedures laid down in this Section.

(2) A written submission for regarding voting at the location of the voter shall be submitted in accordance with the following procedures:

1) a voter on whom arrest has been imposed as a security measure or who is serving a custodial sentence – to the administration of the relevant prison not later than eight days before the election;

2) a voter who, due to his or her state of health, is in an inpatient medical treatment institution, social care centre, or other institution – to the administration of the relevant institution not later than eight days before the election. The administration of the relevant institution shall hand over the received submission to the local government election commission of the location of the voter;

3) a voter who is unable to come to the polling premises due to his or her state of health and is not in the institution referred to in Clause 2 of this Paragraph, and also the caretaker of such voter – to the local government election commission of the location not later than five days before the election.

(3) If physical disabilities prevent the voter from submitting a submission to vote at the location of the voter, the submission may be submitted by the family member of the voter or another person whom the voter trusts.

(4) Upon receipt of a submission to vote at the location of the voter, the administration of the prison shall verify in the electoral register whether the person has the right to participate in the relevant council election. If there is no information in the electoral register which confirms that the person has the right to participate in the relevant council election, the administration of the prison shall not accept the submission of the person. The administration of the prison shall hand over the list of accepted submissions indicating the given names, surnames, and personal identity numbers of the voters to the local government election commission of the location not later than on the fifth day before the election. The administrations of other institutions shall hand over the received submissions to the local government election commission of the location not later than on the fifth day before the election.

(5) The local government election commission of the location shall organise voting not later than three days before the election. Voters shall vote by using registration envelopes on which the local government in the council elections of which the voter is voting shall be indicated in addition to the information referred to in Section 36.¹, Paragraph two. Voters shall be entered in separate electoral rolls according to their electoral district. The registration envelopes shall be thrown in a common sealed ballot box.

(6) The local government election commission shall deliver the sealed ballot boxes with registration envelopes to the Central Electoral Commission which shall open the boxes, sort the registration envelopes, throw them in sealed ballot boxes corresponding to the indicated local government, and hand over the boxes to the relevant local government election commission. Observers authorised for this purpose are entitled to observe this process in accordance with that specified in Section 35, Paragraph two of this Law.

(7) The local government election commission shall hand over the ballot box received from the Central Election Commission to the commission that will count the votes received from other electoral districts and postal voting.

(8) If the voter referred to in Paragraph one of this Section arrives at a polling station on the election day or on any of the advance voting days, he or she may vote in accordance with the procedures laid down in Sections 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 33, 35, and 36 of this Law. The Central Election Commission shall determine the procedures by which the polling station commission informs the election commission or the polling station commission for postal voting that the relevant voter has voted at the polling station.

(9) In an extraordinary council election, for the voters referred to in Section 32 of this Law who are located in the Republic of Latvia outside the territory of the electoral district in the electoral roll of which they are registered, postal voting shall be organised in accordance with the procedures laid down in a separate law.

[20 October 2022]