§ Electoral Code art. 73Template and text of ballot papers

Template and text of ballot papers
(1) Regardless of the type of election, the template of the ballot paper shall be
established by a decision of the Central Electoral Commission. The text of the ballot paper for
the parliamentary, presidential and the organisation of the Republican referendum shall be
approved by the Central Electoral Commission and the text for the local elections and for the
organisation of the local referendum shall be approved by a decision of the relevant electoral
constituency council.
(2) Electoral competitors shall be entered in the ballot papers in the order resulting
from the drawing of lots carried out daily by the electoral body concerned, in accordance with
the procedure laid down in the rules approved by the Central Electoral Commission.
(3) The ballot paper shall be divided into rectangles, corresponding to the number of
electoral competitors participating in the elections. The rectangle must have a size that is
sufficient to include the candidate’s name and surname, the name of the political party,
electoral block that submitted the list of candidates or the candidate concerned, or the mention
‘independent candidate’, the electoral symbol of the electoral competitor, at his/her
convenience. The electoral symbol may be changed at the request of the competitor until the
start of the election campaign. The identity of electoral symbols shall not be accepted. In the
case of independent candidates with the same name and surname, the patronym and the year
of birth if applicable shall be also indicated.
(4) In the rectangle, on the left, the symbol of the electoral competitor who submitted
the list of candidates or that candidate, or the electoral symbol of the independent candidate,
shall be printed at his/her convenience. Electoral symbols shall be presented to the electoral
body together with the documents for the registration of electoral competitors. Regardless of
the type of election, political parties and electoral blocks shall submit their electoral symbol in
the required format, in a centralised manner, to the Central Electoral Commission, and
independent candidates shall only submit the electoral symbol to the electoral body registering
them, if they have it.
(5) In the case of referenda, the ballot paper shall contain the text of the question
submitted to the referendum and two rectangles shall be placed horizontally with the words
‘YES’ and ‘NO’ to the right of the text.
(6) In each rectangle, to the right, at an equal distance from the top and bottom, a circle
of 15 mm diameter shall be printed in which the elector shall affix the stamp ‘voted’ if he/she
votes for an electoral competitor or one of the options exposed to the referendum.
(7) Ballot papers shall be drawn up in Romanian.
(8) If more than one type of election is carried out simultaneously, ballot papers must
be distinguished by colour.