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Section 62
 

(1) The municipal authority should, if required and where possible in consultation with  the management of smaller hospitals or smaller retirement or nursing homes, permit the  eligible voters who are present in the establishment and have a valid polling card for the  constituency to vote before a Mobile Electoral Board (section 8).


(2) The municipal authority agrees with the management of the establishment on the  hours of voting during general polling hours. The management of the establishment  provides a suitable polling station, if required. The municipal authority sets up the polling



  1. time and place of voting.


(3) The Mobile Electoral Board goes to the hospital, retirement home or nursing home,  carrying a locked ballot box and the requisite ballot papers, takes receipt of the polling  cards and proceeds in accordance with sections 59 and 56 subsections (4) to (8). The  Electoral Officer or his or her deputy advises voters who wish to receive assistance from  another person when casting their votes that they may also choose a member of the  Electoral Board to assist them. Upon completion of voting, the locked ballot box and the  polling cards must be taken to the polling station of the polling district without delay. The  ballot box must be kept there under the supervision of the Electoral Board and remain  locked until the completion of general voting. Its contents are then mixed with the contents  of the general ballot box and counted together with the other votes cast in the polling  district. The process must be noted in the election record.


(4) Section 61 subsections (6) to (8) apply accordingly. Otherwise, the general  provisions apply.