M.E.P. & L.C. ELECTIONS - Voters who are unable to wait in the queue

NOTICE BY THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION

ELECTION FOR MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND
LOCAL COUNCILS ELECTIONS
6 JUNE 2009

The Electoral Commission notifies that on the day of the poll persons who are over seventy years and stretcher cases from hospitals and other Old Peoples' institutions, shall be allowed to avoid queuing at all times during the poll without the need of a medical certificate.

Persons who present the KartAnzjan and who are not yet 70 years old, shall be allowed to jump the queue from 1.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m.

All other persons who are sick and unable to wait in the queue must present a medical certificate in order to avoid the queue and this facility would be permitted after 1.00 p.m. Persons presenting a special identity card issued by the National Commission for Disabled Persons would be given the same facility without the need of a medical certificate.

However, ten voters who do not need assistance are to be allowed in the polling room to vote after each voter who has requested assistance to vote by the Assistant Electoral Commissioners, having been granted the facilities as per paragraphs 1, 2, and 3 above.

The Electoral Commission shall receive applications from medical officers who are not contesting the elections for the issue of official forms which would serve as a medical certificate so that sick persons shall be allowed to pass the queue during the poll during the hours specified above. Every medical officer who applies shall be given an amount of forms on which the medical certificate is to be issued and the number of these forms may be increased as necessary.