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Law no. 35/2008: Regulations on the Elections to the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate (2008)

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Article 3, paragraph 4 states:

Romanian citizens shall have the right to vote from the age of 18…

 

Excerpt from Law no. 35/2008: Regulations on the Elections to the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate (2008)

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Article 3, paragraph 5 states:

Mentally defective or alienated people, laid under an interdiction, or the persons convicted to the loss of the electoral rights, by final judgement, shall not have the right to vote.

 

Article 42, paragraph 22(1) states:

For the electors who cannot be transported on grounds of illness or invalidity, the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station may approve, following their written request, accompanied of the copy of medical documents or other official documents attesting the fact that the respective persons cannot be transported, that a team formed of at least 2 members of the electoral bureau goes, with a special ballot box and with the material needed for the vote…to the place where the elector is, in order to carry out the vote.

 

Article 132 states:

…(2) The representatives of the political parties, political alliances, and electoral alliances, as well as of the organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities, in the electoral bureaux and offices may be replaced, at the request of those having put them forward, with the approval of the hierarchically superior electoral bureau, until the day prior to the day of vote, and in case of demise, illness or accidents, the very day of elections.

(3) The members of the electoral bureaux and offices who do not represent political parties, political alliances, electoral alliances or, as appropriate, organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities may be replaced, in case of demise, illness or accidents by those having appointed them, with the observance, as appropriate, of the terms stipulated in articles 13, 14, 16, 17, and 19.*…

 

Excerpts from Law no. 35/2008: Regulations on the Elections to the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate (2008)

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Article 42, paragraph 22(1) states:

For the electors who cannot be transported on grounds of illness or invalidity, the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station may approve, following their written request, accompanied of the copy of medical documents or other official documents attesting the fact that the respective persons cannot be transported, that a team formed of at least 2 members of the electoral bureau goes, with a special ballot box and with the material needed for the vote…to the place where the elector is, in order to carry out the vote.

 

Article 42, paragraph 22(3) states:

The means of vote provided for in paragraph 22(1) … may only be used by the persons having the domicile under the jurisdiction of the respective polling station, and only if the ballot is ensured to remain secret.

 

Article 65, paragraph 1 states:

The Permanent Electoral Authority shall discharge the following main duties in the time lapse between two electoral periods... (n) elaborating programmes and setting integrated rules in keeping with the cast of vote by illiterate or disabled persons, and ensuring their popularization…

 

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Article 132 states:

…(2) The representatives of the political parties, political alliances, and electoral alliances, as well as of the organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities, in the electoral bureaux and offices may be replaced, at the request of those having put them forward, with the approval of the hierarchically superior electoral bureau, until the day prior to the day of vote, and in case of demise, illness or accidents, the very day of elections.

(3) The members of the electoral bureaux and offices who do not represent political parties, political alliances, electoral alliances or, as appropriate, organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities may be replaced, in case of demise, illness or accidents by those having appointed them, with the observance, as appropriate, of the terms stipulated in articles 13, 14, 16, 17, and 19.*…

 

Excerpt from Law no. 35/2008: Regulations on the Elections to the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate (2008)