Election type

Act of Law 247/1995 Coll., on elections to the Parliament of the Czech Republic (1996)

Article 6 Special Lists

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(5) The embassies shall establish special lists for all voters

a) having their permanent address outside the territory of the Czech Republic; any such voter must apply for registration in a special list in writing, providing the originals or legalized copies of documents establishing his/her identity, citizenship of the Czech Republic and permanent address within the territory of competence of the embassy in whose special list he/she is to be registered; each application must be forwarded or delivered to the relevant embassy no later than 40 days before the date of the elections,

b) using their electoral cards to vote at the embassies.

(6) All speciallists defined in Section 5, Subsection

a) shall beclosed by the embassies 30 days before the date of the elections and forwarded immediately to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Ministry shall inform the embassies of any and all possible duplicities. After all duplicities have been eliminated, but no later than 20 days before the date of the elections the Ministry of Foreign Affairs shall forward the final version of special lists to the Ministry of the Interior. If any voter registered in accordance with his/her application in any special list abroad is also registered in any permanent list, the Ministry of the Interior shall report this fact the local authority in whose permanent list he/she is registered and the voter shall be deleted from such permanent list immediately. Any such voter shall be informedof his/her deletion from the permanent list by the embassy in whose speciallist he/she is registered acting on information received from the relevant local authority.

(7) Each embassy shall forward an excerpt fromits special list featuring all voters entitled to vote in the elections to theChamber of Deputies in its special election district to a special districtelection commission.

Section Two Elections to the Chamber ofDeputies

Article 27. All special election districts abroad shall be subordinated to election regions drawn by the State Election Commission within 7 days following the declaration of the elections by the president of the republic.