Ballot paper filling in procedure

(1) The ballot paper shall be filled in by the voter only in a secret voting booth. A voter who is unable to fill in the ballot paper by him/herself is entitled to invite another person into the voting booth to help him/her, except for the electoral officials of the elec­toral bureau, representatives of electoral competitors/participants in the referendum, and persons authorised to assist to the election procedures. Such cases shall be recorded separately in the Precinct Electoral Bureau report.

(2) The voter applies the stamp marked “voted” inside the circle of a single quadran­gle of the ballot paper, which means that he/she voted for the corresponding electoral competitor or for one of the referendum options. The circles from other quadrangles must remain blank.

(3) Shall be prohibited to take pictures or the public and demonstrative display of the filled in ballot paper or removal of the ballot handed in to cast the vote, from the polling station premises.

(4) A voter shall vote only for a single electoral competitor or one of the referendum options.

(5) If the voter did not fill in properly the ballot paper, at his/her request, the Pre­cinct Electoral Bureau cancels the ballot and issues, only once, a new ballot paper. That case shall be mentioned in the report on the votes counting results, being indicated un­der the heading “number of unused and cancelled ballots”, as well as in the Voters’ List.

(6) The voter shall insert the ballot paper stamped “Voted” into the ballot box.