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Section 29
 

(1) The municipal authority contacts, not later than the eighth day before the election, the managements of



  1. socio-therapeutic correctional facilities and prisons where provision has been made  for occupants who are eligible to vote to cast their votes before a Mobile Electoral  Board (sections 8 and 62 to 64), to request a register of the eligible voters from the municipality who live in the  establishment or are employed there and who wish to vote in the establishment on  election day. The municipal authority issues polling cards without postal ballot documents  for such eligible voters and sends them directly to these persons.


(2) The municipal authority instructs the managements of the establishments, not later  than the thirteenth day before the election,



  1. who are listed in the electoral register of other municipalities in the same  constituency that they may only vote in the establishment if they have obtained a  polling card from the municipal authority in whose electoral register they are listed,

  2. who are listed in the electoral register of municipalities in other constituencies that  they may only exercise their right to vote by postal ballot in their home constituency  and for this purpose must obtain a polling card with postal ballot documents from  the municipal authority in whose electoral register they are listed.


(3) The municipal authority requests, not later than the thirteenth day before the  election, the military units stationed in the territory of the municipality to inform the  soldiers who are eligible to vote of the provisions of subsection (2) number 2.