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Law no. 208/2015 on the election of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, as well as the organisation and functioning of the Permanent Electoral Authority

Article 84

84.2 Voters’ access in the voting room shall take place in series corresponding to the number of polling booths. Each voter shall present his/her ID document, and, where appropriate, the document proving his/her residence, to the computer operator of the electoral bureau of the polling station, who shall insert the voter’s personal identification number in the Computer system for monitoring turnout and preventing illegal voting.

84.3 If the voter does not appear on the permanent electoral list existing at the respective polling station, the Computer system for monitoring turnout and preventing illegal voting shall signal if: a) the person asking to vote has turned 18 years old until the day of the voting inclusively; b) the person asking to vote has lost his/her electoral rights; c) the person asking to vote is assigned to another polling station; d) the person asking to vote is omitted from the permanent electoral list, is domiciled or residing within the jurisdiction of the respective polling station and if (s)he filed a request to be registered in the Electoral Register with his/her address of residence; e) the person asking to vote has already exercised his/her right to vote for the same ballot.

84.4 Based on the results generated by the Computer system for monitoring turnout and preventing illegal voting, the communications made by using this system and the verification of the ID document, the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station: a) shall stop from voting the person having not turned 18 years old until the date of the voting, the person having lost his/her electoral rights, as well as the person having chosen the postal voting; b) shall guide the voter to go and vote at the polling station to which (s)he is assigned, if assigned to another polling station; c) shall guide the voter to go and vote at the polling station to which (s)he is assigned according to his/her residence, if registered in the Electoral Register with his/her residential address; d) shall register on the additional electoral list the person asking to vote, which has been omitted from the permanent electoral list, who is domiciled or residing within the territorial jurisdiction of the respective polling station; if the person omitted is registered on the permanent electoral list existing at another polling station, the president of the electoral bureau of that polling station shall be notified by the computer system to this effect and shall erase the respective person from the permanent electoral list; once the voter signs in the additional electoral list, (s)he shall receive the ballot papers and the “VOTED” stamp; e) shall register on the additional electoral list the person asking to vote, who is domiciled or residing in another administrative-territorial unit in the same electoral constituency; if the person is registered on the permanent electoral list existing at another polling station, the president of the electoral bureau of that polling station shall be notified by the computer system to this effect and shall erase the respective person from the permanent electoral list; once the voter signs in the additional electoral list, (s)he shall receive the ballot papers and the “VOTED” stamp) shall allow the voter fulfilling the conditions set by law and registered on the permanent electoral list to vote; to this purpose, once the voter signs in the permanent electoral list, (s)he shall receive the ballot papers and the “VOTED” stamp.

84.5 If, for well-founded reasons, ascertained by the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station, the voter cannot sign in the permanent electoral list, the president shall make a note thereof in the electoral list, confirmed by his/her signature and that of another member of the electoral bureau.