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Moldovan electoral body establishes peculiarities of exercising right to vote at local elections

15:27 | 27.09.2019 Category: Political

Chisinau, 27 September /MOLDPRES/ - The Central Electoral Commission (CEC), at a today’s meeting, established the peculiarities of the voting of some categories of citizens at the local polls due on 20 October 2019.   

Under the general norms, the right to vote at the local elections is exercised in the settlement where the voter has his/her dwelling place. If the voter has both dwelling place and residence, on the period of the residence’s validity, he/she votes in the settlement where having the residence.

At the same time, voters who have no registration at the dwelling place or residence in the concerned settlement and the military serving in the army will not be able to participate in the local polls and the procedure of submitting the declaration on the new place of stay is not applied.

The students and pupils with right to vote will be able to vote in the settlement where they have dwelling place. If they also have residence, they will be able to exercise the right to vote only in the settlement where they have residence.  

The electors with right to vote who on the day of the elections will be in hospitals, spas, rest homes and the persons detained based on a warrant of arrest till the pronunciation of the court ruling, the persons sentenced to imprisonment, whose sentence is not final, those who fulfill a contravention sanction under arrest, the people sentenced to imprisonment under final court decision vote if the institution is placed in the area of the polling station where the elector belongs, according to the registration at the dwelling place or residence or if the institution is placed in the area of the electoral district of the level II, where the voter has registration at the dwelling place or residence. In this case, he/she votes only for the election of the local council of the level II and, if a case may be, for the election of the general mayor of the Balti city or for the election of the general mayor of the Chisinau municipality, being included in the additional electoral list.

The people under home arrest will be able to demand the mobile ballot box, by preliminarily informing the electoral bureau of the polling station in the concerned area and the bodies exercising the control of the observance of the preventive measure.  

The voters having identity papers without the personal identification number will be able to vote being included in the supplementary electoral list, if their residence in the area of the concerned polling station is ascertained in the identity act.

If the runoff is held, the right to vote will be exercised in similar conditions to the ones in which the first round of the polls was organized.  

 

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