§ Article 67Voting by Post

1. Citizens who due to their health condition or other reasons are not able to come to the polling station on the election day shall be provided with a possibility to participate in elections by voting by post. Voting by post shall be possible at post offices during their business hours beginning 5 days before the election and ending 1 day prior to the election, provided the voter is put on the voter list of the constituency which is situated that city, region, and ending 2 days prior to the election, provided the voter is not put on the voter list of the constituency which is not situated in that city, region. Expenses related to voting by post shall be covered from the funds of the State Budget.
2. The head of the post office shall be responsible for the organisation of voting by post. He shall be responsible for keeping of records, issue and collection of ballot papers and voucher envelopes during voting by post. The chairman of the electoral committee of the polling district within the territory of which a post office is situated, shall be responsible for the organisation of the supervision of the work of the post office during voting by post. When necessary, he must, in conjunction with the chairmen of other polling district committees, whom the constituency electoral committee has assigned with such task, arrange for the organisation of members’ of polling district committees watching-over in post offices.
3. The head of the post office, with the consent of the constituency electoral committee, shall appoint postal workers for the issue and collection of ballot papers and voucher envelopes during voting by post, who are entrusted with the issue of ballot papers and voucher envelopes. If the constituency electoral committee requests so, the head of the post office must remove a postal worker from the work with election documents. Postal workers who are authorised to issue election papers shall be issued by the constituency electoral committee the certificates of the established form. An electoral committee member, election observer, having produced his certificate to the postal worker, a voter, having produced the voter certificate and the document proving his identity, shall have the right to write his remark in this certificate, and the head of the post office shall immediately notify the constituency electoral committee about this remark. The postal worker who does not have this certificate shall not have the right to issue election papers.
4. Post offices must provide a room (place) where the voter can, without interference and in secrecy, mark the ballot papers and put them into a voucher envelope. Voting may be observed by the observers of parties and political organisations, who have certificates permitting to observe voting in any polling district.
5. The postal worker shall issue election documents to a voter in accordance with the procedure established by the Central Electoral Committee. Together with ballot papers, voters shall be given envelopes for voting by post. An outer envelope for voting by post shall be addressed by the postal worker to the polling district committee which is indicated in the voter certificate of the person.
6. Voting in secrecy, the voter shall:
1) mark the ballot papers;
2) put the marked ballot papers into the voucher envelope;
3) seal the voucher envelope;
4) put the voucher envelope into the outer envelope together with the voter certificate;
5) seal the outer envelope.
7. The outer envelopes, voucher envelopes, and ballot papers shall be delivered at least 2 days prior to the election by a postman to the homes of voters who due to their health condition are not able to come to vote at a post office or a polling station on an election day. A concrete schedule of postmen’s arrival to the homes of voters must be approved by the head of a post office not later than 12:00 noon, its copy shall be put on an announcment board and may be implemented only on the day following the approval. Not less than 2 committee members as well as observers may arrive at the voter’s home toghether with the postman. The list of such voters shall be compiled 10 days before the elections by polling district committees in accordance with requests to ensure the possibility to vote at home, which are of the form established by the Central Electoral Committee and filled in by the citizens. Polling district committees, with the consent of the chairman of a constituency electoral committee or a member of the constituency electoral committee authorised by the chairman, may supplement the list, if they receive the requests of these voters not later than 3 days prior to the elections. Citizens’ requests must also be approved by heads of town, regional care and guardianship or health surveillance and treatment institutions. The requests shall be appended to the list of voters who due to their health condition are not able to come to vote at a post office or a polling station on an election day, which is compiled by a polling district committee. Postal workers, electoral committee members or other persons may not bring envelopes for voting by post and ballot papers to the homes of voters who are not on the list of voters who due to their health condition are not able to come to vote at a post office or a polling station on an election day. The following persons may be included in the list of voters who due to their health condition are not able to come to vote at a post office or a polling station on an election day: invalids of Group I, invalids of Group II with motor disabilities and temporary working incapacity, if they submit requests, provided for in this Paragraph, to ensure the possibility to vote at home. Officers who furnish false information about voters who due to their health condition are not able to come to vote at a post office or a polling station on an election day, shall be held liable in accordance with the procedure established by law.
8. The sealed outer envelope (with the voter certificate, voucher envelope and ballot papers in it) the voter may:
1) hand to a postal worker;
2) hand to the postman who has delivered the election documents to him; or
3) put into a post-box.
9. When a voter votes at home, it shall be prohibited to exert influence on his determination and to urge him to vote. The voter who has no physical disability preventing him from marking ballot papers, shall himself put the secretly marked ballot papers into the voucher envelope, seal it, put the voucher envelope into the outer envelope together with the voter certificate and seal the outer envelope. Upon request of the voter who because of his physical disability is not able to do this himself, the person chosen by him (except the postman, electoral committee member or observer) shall assist him in doing so. The said person must keep the voting secret. The voter may hand the sealed outer envelope to the postman or to send it on the same day or another day.
10. It shall be prohibited to accept from the voter an outer envelope which is not sealed.