§ Section 32.¹(untitled)

(1) For the voters referred to
in Section 32 of this Law who are located in the Republic of
Latvia outside the territory of the electoral district in the
electoral roll of which they are registered, voting shall be
organised in accordance with the procedures laid down in this
Section.
(2) A written submission for regarding voting at the location
of the voter shall be submitted in accordance with the following
procedures:
1) a voter on whom arrest has been imposed as a security
measure or who is serving a custodial sentence - to the
administration of the relevant prison not later than eight days
before the election;
2) a voter who, due to his or her state of health, is in an
inpatient medical treatment institution, social care centre, or
other institution - to the administration of the relevant
institution not later than eight days before the election. The
administration of the relevant institution shall hand over the
received submission to the local government election commission
of the location of the voter;
3) a voter who is unable to come to the polling premises due
to his or her state of health and is not in the institution
referred to in Clause 2 of this Paragraph, and also the caretaker
of such voter - to the local government election commission of
the location not later than five days before the election.
(3) If physical disabilities prevent the voter from submitting
a submission to vote at the location of the voter, the submission
may be submitted by the family member of the voter or another
person whom the voter trusts.
(4) Upon receipt of a submission to vote at the location of
the voter, the administration of the prison shall verify in the
electoral register whether the person has the right to
participate in the relevant council election. If there is no
information in the electoral register which confirms that the
person has the right to participate in the relevant council
election, the administration of the prison shall not accept the
submission of the person. The administration of the prison shall
hand over the list of accepted submissions indicating the given
names, surnames, and personal identity numbers of the voters to
the local government election commission of the location not
later than on the fifth day before the election. The
administrations of other institutions shall hand over the
received submissions to the local government election commission
of the location not later than on the fifth day before the
election.
(5) The local government election commission of the location
shall organise voting not later than three days before the
election. Voters shall vote by using registration envelopes on
which the local government in the council elections of which the
voter is voting shall be indicated in addition to the information
referred to in Section 36.¹, Paragraph two. Voters
shall be entered in separate electoral rolls according to their
electoral district. The registration envelopes shall be thrown in
a common sealed ballot box.
(6) The local government election commission shall deliver the
sealed ballot boxes with registration envelopes to the Central
Electoral Commission which shall open the boxes, sort the
registration envelopes, throw them in sealed ballot boxes
corresponding to the indicated local government, and hand over
the boxes to the relevant local government election commission.
Observers authorised for this purpose are entitled to observe
this process in accordance with that specified in Section 35,
Paragraph two of this Law.
(7) The local government election commission shall hand over
the ballot box received from the Central Election Commission to
the commission that will count the votes received from other
electoral districts and postal voting.
(8) If the voter referred to in Paragraph one of this Section
arrives at a polling station on the election day or on any of the
advance voting days, he or she may vote in accordance with the
procedures laid down in Sections 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 33, 35, and
36 of this Law. The Central Election Commission shall determine
the procedures by which the polling station commission informs
the election commission or the polling station commission for
postal voting that the relevant voter has voted at the polling
station.
(9) In an extraordinary council election, for the voters
referred to in Section 32 of this Law who are located in the
Republic of Latvia outside the territory of the electoral
district in the electoral roll of which they are registered,
postal voting shall be organised in accordance with the
procedures laid down in a separate law.
[20 October 2022]