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Article 5
 

(1) Upon request of voters who are blind, illiterate or persons with disability, the President of the Polling Station Committee shall approve the procedure wherein another person, selected by the voter concerned, may assist the voter in signing the excerpt from the Central Voters Register, and casting his or her ballot.


(2) The helping person may not be a member of the Polling Station Committee, an accredited observer, or an observer of a political party, coalition, list of independent candidate or independent candidate.


(3) The person helping the voter shall print his or her name, indicate his/her personal identity number (JMBGnumber) and sign the excerpt from the Central Voters Register next tothe name of the voter whom he or she assisted.The person helping the voter does not need tobe a registered voter.


(4) A person may, in terms of paragraphs (1) and (2) of this Article, help only one voter on the Election Day.


(5) In the event that the Polling Station is provided with election technologies enabling a person with disability to cast his or her vote independently, the assistance of another person shall be excluded in order to protect the secrecy of voting.


(6) The Central Election Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina shall regulate the method of implementation of this Article with a bylaw.