voting documents of hospital patients
PRESS RELEASE BY THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND LOCAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS – MAY, 2019
Voting Documents of Hospital Patients
The Electoral Commission appeals to relatives of voters recovering in Mater Dei, Karin Grech, Mount Carmel and Gozo General Hospitals (who were thereat registered as patients up to 6.00 pm of Monday, 20th May) that if they are in possession of the patient’s voting document/s, they are to immediately consign the said document/s to the patient to enable him/her to vote at the Hospital on Thursday, 23rd May.
Whoever holds a voting document pertaining to another person would effectively be denying the person’s right to vote, in breach of the law, which states that a “...person who is in unlawful possession of any voting document.... shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable, on conviction, to a fine (multa) or to imprisonment or to both such fine and imprisonment” (Art. 112, Cap. 354).
The Electoral Commission notifies that when such cases arise, the Police authorities will be asked to intervene.
21st May, 2019
