Citizens can ask for voting at place of stay at runoff election of general local polls in Moldova

Chisinau, 18 November /MOLDPRES/ - Citizens can submit applications for the voting at the place of stay at the runoff election of the general local polls and repeated elections in some settlements of Moldova, due on 19 November 2023. 

According to the Central Electoral Commission (CEC), the voter, who cannot go to the polling station for health reasons or other well-grounded reasons, should submit a written application, in order to ask the electoral bureau for the voting with the mobile ballot box. The applications are made in written form, two weeks before the day of elections and till 14:00 of the day before the polls. On the day of the ballot, the applications are approved by the electoral bureau till 14:00 only upon the presentation of a medical certificate.    

Also, the people who cannot submit applications on the voting at the place of stay by themselves have right to do this through a member of their family or to demand for this the assistance of the social assistant from the mayoralty. If, because of the physical deficiency, disease or other well-grounded reasons, the voter cannot personally sign the application on the voting at the place of stay, he/she can personally submit the application orally at the headquarters of the polling station. If the application cannot be submitted personally in oral form at the headquarters of the polling station, it can be submitted by phone.   

On the day of elections, the head of the electoral bureau of the polling station nominates at least two members of the bureau, who move with a mobile ballot box and materials needed for voting to the place of stay of the elector, for the latter to vote. 

The runoff election of the general local polls will be held in 273 settlements of Moldova on 19 November.  At the same time, repeated voting will take place in eight settlements of the country on the same day.