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Article 43
 

Submission of applications to vote


(1) Where a voter wishes to vote by post, they send a corresponding application to the Estonian foreign missionin the country of their habitual residence. Where Estonia does not have a foreign mission in the country of habitual residence of a voter, the voter sends the application to the closest foreign mission of Estonia.


(2) A voter who has been entered in the list of voters:


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1) appends a copy of the page of their identity document containing personal data to the application;  2)  indicates in the application their residential address in the foreign state.


(3) A voter who has not been entered in the list of voters:


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1) appends copies of documents which certify their identity and that they have the right to vote in accordancewith § 2 to the application;


2) indicates their residential address in the foreign state;


3) indicates their last residence in Estonia (the county, the city district in Tallinn, or the city of Tartu). Where avoter permanently residing in a foreign state has not had a residence in Estonia, they indicate the last residence of their parents or grandparents in Estonia.


(4) A voter temporarily staying in a foreign state indicates their residential address in Estonia in the applicationin addition to the information prescribed in clauses 1 and 2 of subsection 2.


(5) Applications are to be received by the foreign mission not later than on the 30thday before the referendum day.


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