§ Section 22(untitled)

(1) Voting in the elections shall be by
secret ballot.
(2) The ballot papers of all the lists of candidates nominated
in the constituency and a ballot envelope which is sealed with a
seal of the relevant polling station commission shall be issued
by the polling station commission to each voter. The voter shall
place in this envelope the ballot paper that conforms to the list
of candidates for which he or she votes. Each voter may vote only
once.
(3) Inside the polling premises, a member of the polling
station commission (hereinafter - the polling station
commission), having ascertained in the electoral register online
that the person is a voter and that there is no notation in the
electoral register on the participation of this person in the
relevant election of the Saeima, shall make a notation in
the electoral register online on the participation in the
relevant election of the Saeima and enter the given name,
surname, and personal identity number of the voter in the list of
participating voters. The voter shall sign the list of
participating voters confirming the receipt of a complete set of
ballot papers containing the lists of candidates nominated for
the constituency and the ballot envelope.
(3¹) If there is a notation in the electoral
register on the participation of the voter in the elections,
however, he or she denies that, the polling station commission
shall contact the polling station commission in which the voter,
according to the information in the electoral register, has voted
and shall clarify whether there is the signature of the voter in
the list of participating voters of the polling station. If the
absence of the signature is confirmed, the voter may vote. If the
presence of the signature is confirmed, the voter shall be
refused voting.
(4) Members of the election commissions are prohibited from
campaigning for or against candidates or the lists of
candidates.
[26 March 1998; 30 May 2002; 9 March 2006; 18 January 2018;
23 September 2021]