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Article 54
 

Voting at the Place of Stay of the Elector or the Participant in the Referendum during Elections or Referendum

 

The precinct commission shall be obliged to provide opportunity for participation in the voting for electors or participants in the referendum who are not able to come on the day of elections or referendum to the voting premises because of their state of health or because of other valid causes. To this end, the precinct commission must have the required number of portable ballot boxes the number of which shall be established by a superior commission.

 

The precinct commission, on request of electors or participants in the referendum expressed in writing or orally, shall charge not less than two members of the commissions to organise voting at the place of location of these persons on the day of elections or referendum as follows:

oral and written requests of electors and participants in the referendum on the organisation of voting at the place of their location on the day of elections or referendum shall be registered in a specially compiled list signed by the chairman or the secretary of the precinct commission where it is necessary to specify data on such persons as stipulated in the list of citizens who have the right to take part in elections or referendum. Official confirmation of causes making it impossible to come to the room for voting shall not be required;

members of the precinct commission shall sign for the receipt of ballot papers in the number correspondent to the number of received requests of electors or participants in the referendum;

voting shall be organised by not less than two members of the precinct commission;

for organising voting at the place of location of electors or participants in the referendum, the chairman or the secretary of the precinct commission shall copy all data on such persons into a separate inserted list from the main list of citizens who have the right to take part in elections or referendum. The electors and participants in the referendum who vote at the place of their stay shall sign in the above inserted list when they receive ballot papers. Then, a note shall be made in the main list of citizens who have the right to take part in elections or referendum that these persons have voted at the place of their stay. The inserted lists of citizens who have the right to take part in elections or referendum containing the electors and the participants in the referendum who have voted at the place of stair stay must be kept together with the main list of citizens who have the right to take part in elections or referendum.

 

Voting at the place of stay of electors or participants in the referendum shall be organised with the observance of the requirements of this Code.