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Article 53
 

Advance Voting at Elections or Referendum

 

The elector or the participant in the referendum who has no opportunity to be present on the day of elections or referendum at the place of his living shall have the right, not earlier than five days before the elections or the referendum and in conditions excluding control over the expression of his will, fill the ballot paper in the room of the precinct commission and cast it to the sealed separate ballot box for voting of electors and participants in the referendum who will be absent on the day of the holding of elections or referendum at the place of their living. Official confirmation of causes disabling the elector or the participant in the referendum to come to the voting premises on the day of elections or referendum shall not be required.

 

Advance voting shall be performed from 10 till 14 hours on working days and from 16 till 19 on days-off in the presence of not less than two members of the precinct commission.

 

In receiving a ballot paper the participant in the referendum shall sign in person in the list of citizens who have the right to take part in the elections or the referendum and shall specify the date of advance voting.

 

Advance voting shall be performed with the observance of the requirements of this Code.