1. At the entrance to the polling station, a voter shall present his voter certificate, passport or other document certifying his identity and citizenship to a referendum committee member of the polling district. Upon having established that the voter has arrived at the referendum polling district in whose list of voters his name has been included, the committee member shall hand the voter an arrival card stamped with the seal of the referendum polling district and indicating the number of the arrival and directing which committee member to apply to for a referendum ballot. It shall not be permitted to hand several arrival cards to one voter or to hand to a voter another voter’s arrival card. If upon arriving at the polling station, the person does not have the required documents or it is not clear whether he has been registered in the list of voters of this referendum polling district, the committee member shall not hand the arrival card to this person, instead, the person shall be handed a guest’s card and shall be referred to the committee chairman or deputy chairman to clarify his voting status. 2. The committee member who is tasked with handing out referendum ballot papers, having established on the basis of the produced documents that the person who arrived to vote is indeed the voter who has been registered in the voter list, or if two voters of the Republic of Lithuania registered in the voter list of that referendum polling district testify to this fact in writing to the referendum committee chairman, shall find the name of the voter on the list of voters, and shall take the voter certificate and the arrival card from the person. After the voter and the committee member who hands referendum ballot papers sign in the voter list of the referendum-polling district, the voter shall be handed referendum ballot papers. The voter certificate and arrival card shall not be returned to the voter. In voting by post, an entry shall be made on the voter certificate concerning the issue of a ballot paper, and the voter certificate shall be returned to the voter. 3. It shall be prohibited to hand the voter the referendum ballot paper (ballot papers) of another person. The committee member who violates this provision shall be liable under the laws of the Republic of Lithuania.
§ Article 52Voter Identification
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