TrustVoting Atlas

Carrying out voting
(1) Each voter shall perform the voting personally. Voting in place of other persons
shall not be allowed. The voter shall present the identity document to the electoral bureau of
the polling station in order to record his/her presence at the polling station and to verify its
inclusion in the basic electoral roll. The electoral bureau then delivers the ballot paper to the
voter. On receipt of the ballot paper, the voter shall sign in the electoral roll next to his/her
name.
(2) Voters in the district of the polling station not included in the basic electoral roll shall
be entered in an additional electoral roll upon presentation of the document certifying their
domicile or temporary residence within the perimeter of the polling station concerned. Those
voters shall sign to confirm on their honour their abstention from multiple voting and that they
are informed of criminal liability in the event of a breach of this obligation.
(3) In the case of parliamentary, presidential election and Republican referenda, the
following shall also be entered on the same additional list:
a) voters who arrived at the polling station with the voting certificate. The voting
certificate shall remain at the polling station office and shall be attached to the additional list;
b) persons detained based on an arrest warrant until the judgment is pronounced,
persons sentenced to imprisonment (deprivation of liberty) whose sentence is not final, those
serving an administrative penalty in the form of arrest, persons sentenced to imprisonment
(deprivation of liberty) by final judgment, in prison institutions located in a municipality other
than the registered domicile or temporary residence;
c) voters who do not have a registered place or residence or temporary residence.
Voters who have not been included in the basic electoral roll due to the fact that they do not
have a registered domicile or temporary residence shall be able to vote, in the polling stations
corresponding to the place of registration at their last domicile or temporary residence;
d) voters with the right to vote who on the day of the vote are in sanatoria and rest
houses, hospitals and other stationary curative establishments located in a municipality other
than the place where they have registered their domicile or temporary residence but situated
in the territory of the Republic of Moldova;
e) citizens of the Republic of Moldova with the right to vote abroad and present
themselves on the election day at the polling station concerned;
f) citizens with the right to vote from the left bank of Nistru (Transnistria), who have a
registered domicile or temporarily reside in municipalities provisionally outside the sovereign
control of the constitutional authorities of the Republic of Moldova, as confirmed by the
respective entry in the identity document;
g) students and pupils entitled to vote registered with educational establishments in a
municipality where they do not have a registered domicile or temporary residence;
h) military personnel in military units, based on data submitted by the commanders of
the respective military units.
i) electoral officials of the electoral bureaux of polling stations operating on election day
at the polling station concerned, without submitting the voting certificate.
(4) According to paragraph (3) point g), students and pupils with the right to vote,
registered in educational establishments in a municipality where they do not have a registered
domicile or temporary residence, may vote at any polling station opened in that municipality,
and shall be required to present the identity card and student card of the educational
establishment in question.
(5) In the case of local elections and referenda, voters shall be included in the
additional electoral roll in accordance with the conditions laid down in paragraph (2) and:
a) persons detained under an arrest warrant until the judgment is pronounced, persons
sentenced to imprisonment (deprivation of liberty) whose sentence is not final, those serving
an administrative penalty in the form of arrest, persons sentenced to imprisonment
(deprivation of liberty) by final judgment in prison institutions only if they are temporarily
resident or resident in the administrative-territorial unit in which those institutions are located;
b) voters with the right to vote, who on the day of the vote are in sanatoria and rest
houses, hospitals and other residential institutions only if they have their domicile or temporary
residence in the administrative territorial unit in which those institutions are located;
c) electoral officials, based on the voting certificate, at the polling station in which they
operate, but which is located in the same constituency in the territory of which their
domicile/temporary residence is registered.
(6) Voting shall be carried out in accordance with the procedure laid down by the
Central Electoral Commission, based on one of the following identity documents:
a) the identity card of the citizen of the Republic of Moldova confirming the domicile or
temporary residence of the voter on the territory of the polling station;
b) provisional identity card indicating the nationality of the Republic of Moldova, the
domicile or temporary residence of the holder;
c) passport of the citizen of the Republic of Moldova.
(7) The chairperson of the electoral bureau of the polling station shall record the
important events that have occurred during the vote and during the counting of the votes, and
shall record these data in the activity report at the electoral bureau. At the request of members
of the bureau or of persons authorised to attend electoral operations, or of any voter, the
chairperson shall note the comments and objections made by them to the voting procedure in
an act that shall be attached to the minutes of the electoral bureau of the polling station.
(8) The electoral bureau shall decide to extend the voting time by a maximum of 3
hours in order to allow voters sitting in the polling station concerned to fulfil their rights by
informing the electoral constituency council and the Central Electoral Commission of the
extension.