§ Article 69Voting in Medical Treatment Facilities and Institutions of Social Guardianship and Care

1. Special post offices designated for voting shall be established in medical treatment facilities and institutions of social guardianship and care. At least 15 days before the elections the municipal electoral committee shall: by the advice of heads of medical treatment facilities, institutions of social guardianship and care draw up a list of special post offices; by the advice of the head of the post offices establish the working hours of these post offices. The head of the institution shall allot the premises appropriate for voting and shall be responsible that the voters are notified about the working place and time of a special post office, and that the conditions should be created for voters to reach it.
2. Patients or inmates of medical treatment facilities and institutions of social guardianship and care who are able to move shall vote themselves in the polling place in accordance with the procedure set forth in Article 65 of this Law.
3. Patients or inmates of medical treatment facilities and institutions of social care who are unable to come to a polling place due to their state of health shall be visited by at least 2 committee members, election observers (should they participate) and officers of special post offices.
4. The voter must, in secret, personally mark the ballot paper and place it in the envelope for voting by post. If necessary, he may be assisted by an individual (except an employee of that institution or facilities, a postman, a member of the electoral committee, or an election observer) whom he trusts.
5. By orders of the head of the medical treatment facilities or the institution of social guardianship or care, it may be prohibited to disturb patients who are in critical health condition for the purpose of voting. Such orders shall be obligatory to postmen.
6. It shall also be prohibited to disturb an individual for the purpose of voting, if the commission of doctors has concluded pursuant to the established procedure of the Ministry of Health Care that he is incapable of understanding the essence of his actions at the time of voting because of chronic mental disease, feeble-mindedness, or temporary mental disorder.