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Section 257
 

(1) On the basis of the polling district electoral register and the list of voters who requested mobile ballot box, the polling station commission shall hand over to voters a single-member constituency ballot paper and a party list ballot paper.


(1a) The polling station commission shall hand over to voters who are recorded in the electoral register as national minority voters also for the election of the Members of the National Assembly a single-member constituency ballot paper and the list ballot paper of his national minority.


(1b) The polling station commission shall hand over a single-member constituency ballot paper to a voter recorded in the polling district electoral register if he established an address in Hungary following the seventh day before election day, and


a) the National Election Office sent him a postal voting package pursuant to section 277 (1) or


b) he was recorded in the postal voter electoral register on any day between the fifteenth and seventh day before voting day and requested to receive the ballot paper in person.


(2) Absentee voters shall vote on the ballot paper of the parliamentary single-member constituency of their address and on the national list ballot paper. A reference to the parliamentary single-member constituency shall be indicated on the ballot paper envelopes. The voters shall place the ballot papers in the envelope and seal the envelope.


(2a) In a joint proceeding, absentee voters shall place the ballot paper of the parliamentary single-member constituency of their address, the national list ballot paper and the ballot paper of the election of the Members of the European Parliament conducted in the framework of the joint proceeding or the national referendum conducted in the framework of the joint proceeding in an envelope and seal the envelope. A reference to the parliamentary single-member constituency shall be indicated on the ballot paper envelopes.


(3) For absentee voters and voters with settlement-based domicile, the polling station commission of the designated polling district shall be competent to conduct voting by mobile ballot box in the entire settlement.