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| Law on Election of Members of Parliament
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Promulgated State Gazette No.37/13.04.2001
Chapter Three
ELECTION ROLLS
Article 26
(1) Election rolls shall be drawn up by the municipal administrations in the communities where the population registrar is kept and signed by the Mayor of the municipality or the Mayor of the mayoralty or the Proxy Mayor and the Secretary of the municipality. In cities divided into wards, election rolls shall be signed by the Mayor and the Secretary of the ward.
(2) Each voter shall be entered into one single election roll.
Article 27
(1) Election rolls shall be compiled for each election district separately. They shall be printed on the basis of the National Population registrar by the Civil Registration and Administrative Services Department at the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works.
(2) Election rolls shall be drawn up on the basis of permanent addresses.
(3) Election rolls shall specify alphabetically the full name of the voter, his or her personal identification number, the permanent address or the current address specified by the voter where the current address does not coincide with the permanent one, and the type and number of identity document, and a Notes column shall be added.
(4) Rolls shall include all Bulgarian citizens eligible under Art. 3, para 1.
(5) Where the name of the community, street, housing area or number of housing building was changed during the preceding six months, the roll shall feature also the old name or number.
Article 28
(1) The names of disenfranchised or deceased citizens as of the election day shall be deleted from election rolls.
(2) The names of citizens who have moved abroad at least two months before the election day and have not returned until the submission of the rolls to the District Election Committees shall be deleted.
(3) The deletion under para 2 shall be done at an application of the persons who have left the country or officially in accordance with the data made available by the Ministry of the Interior from the applications for issuing Bulgarian identity documents.
(4) The names of citizens who have the right to vote at the respective district but have been missed in the election rolls shall be added thereto.
(5) The adding of names shall be done by the bodies under Art. 26, para 1 pending the submission of rolls to District Election Committees at the request of the voter given in writing or on the election day by the District Committee at the request of the voter and upon presentation of an identity document.
(6) Where the persons under para 2 return to the country after the completion of the election roll, they shall be entered in pursuance of paras 4 and 5.
(7) Persons who have served their imprisonment sentence or are no longer under legal disability shall be entered into the election rolls upon presentation of the respective document to the municipality, ward or mayoralty.
(8) Any refusal to delete or add a name may be appealed before the District Court within two days. The Court shall hear the petition in public, while summonsing the petitioner and the bodies under Art. 26, para 1, within two days and issue a final judgement which shall be announced forthwith.
(9) Any refusal by a District Election Committee to add a name under para 5 may be appealed before the Constituency Election Committee which shall issue a decision on the petition forthwith.
Article 29
(1) Election rolls shall be announced by the bodies under Art. 26, para 1 not later than 40 days prior to the election day at visible places within the territory of the respective election district. These rolls shall not feature the personal identification numbers and the numbers of the identity documents of the voters.
(2) At the places where the election rolls are announced, the respective District Election Committee shall announce the findings of the report under Art. 6, para 2, subparas 1, 5 and 7 of the Law on Access to the Documents of the Former State Security Service and the Former Intelligence Service of the General Staff on the registered candidates within five days after the registration is completed.
Article 30
(1) Conscripts in the Armed Forces shall be entered into the election rolls of the election district which is the closest to their military unit.
(2) The list of the persons under para 1 shall be drawn up and signed by the commander of the unit and it shall be sent to the Mayor of the municipality or the ward or the mayoralty for entering into the election rolls not later than 45 days prior to the election day.
(3) The bodies under Art. 26, para 1 at the permanent address of such persons shall be advised of their entering into the rolls so that to delete them from the respective election rolls.
(4) The Ministry of Defence shall provide the Civil Registration and Administrative Services Department at the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works with information about the location of conscripts as of the election day for the purposes of entering them into the election rolls under para 1.
Article 31
(1) Conscripts who are on leave and stay in the community of their permanent address on the election date shall be entered into the election roll of their district in case their names have been deleted there.
(2) When allowing the leave under para 1, the commander of the unit shall immediately advise the Mayor of the municipality or the ward or the mayoralty at the location of the military unit to delete the conscript from the election roll under Art. 30, para 1.
(3) Where conscripts are transferred to the military unit after the submission of the list under Art. 30, para 2 but prior to the submission of the rolls under Art. 30, para 1 to the District Election Committees, such conscripts shall be entered into the election rolls of the districts under Art. 30, para 1. In such cases, the commander of the units from which the conscripts have been transferred shall immediately advise the Mayor of the municipality or the ward or the mayoralty at the location of this military unit to delete such persons from the election rolls there.
Article 32
(1) Any voter may request the elimination of incomplete or wrong data on the election roll with an application given in writing to the Mayor of the municipality or the ward or the mayoralty.
(2) The respective administration shall accept applications not later than seven days prior to the election day.
(3) The Mayor of the municipality or the ward or the mayoralty shall examine the application within two days and issue a substantiated decision thereon, announcing it in public forthwith.
(4) Any person concerned may appeal against the decision before the District Court within two days. The Court shall examine the petition in public, while summonsing the petitioner and the Mayor, within two days and issue a final judgement which shall be announced forthwith.
Article 33
(1) The election rolls at health establishments, recreational facilities, homes for aged people or others or on vessels sailing under the Bulgarian flag shall be drawn up by the head of the establishment or facility or home or by the captain of the vessel respectively.
(2) The head of the establishment or facility or home or the captain of the vessel shall advise the bodies under Art. 26, para 1 of the persons included on the rolls so that to delete them from the election rolls at their permanent address.
Article 34
Heads of prisons shall draw up the rolls of arrested persons who are nor serving an enforceable sentence.
Article 35
(1) Bulgarian expatriates who are in the country on the election day may vote at the place of their permanent address. Where such persons have been deleted from the election rolls prior to their submission to District Election Committees, they shall be re-entered into the rolls by the bodies under Art. 26, para 1.
(2) Where the persons under para 1 have arrived to the country not earlier than 24 hours prior to the submission of the election roll to the District Election Committee, they shall be entered into the election roll by the District Election Committee upon presentation of an identity document certifying their arrival to the country within the said time limits.
Article 36
(1) The bodies under Art. 26, para 1 shall issue certificate for voting elsewhere in one single copy to voters who have stated in advance that they will not vote in the district at their permanent address.
(2) Certificates shall be issued not later than 10 days prior to the election day.
(3) Persons who have received certificates shall be deleted from the election roll.
(4) Certificates shall be recorded into a special register.
(5) Holders of certificates for voting elsewhere shall be entered into an additional election roll signed by the Chairperson and the Secretary of the District Election Committee at the place of their stay on the election day. The certificates for voting elsewhere shall be attached to this roll.
(6) Holders of certificates for voting elsewhere shall be entitled to vote at the place of their permanent address. The Committee shall enter such voters into the additional roll to which the certificates under para 1 shall be attached.
(7) Voters whose current and permanent address are located in different communities may request to be entered into the election roll at their current address not later than 14 days prior to the election day.
(8) The request under para 7 shall be given in writing before the bodies under Art. 26, para 1 at the place of the current address of the person. After the entry, they shall officially advise the bodies under Art. 26, para 1 at the place of the permanent address of the person not later than seven days prior to the election day so that to delete the name from the roll at the permanent address.
Article 37
(1) Election rolls for voting abroad shall be drawn up by the heads of diplomatic missions on the basis of personal statements expressing the will to vote not later than the election day.
(2) Voters who have not been entered into the election roll prior to the election day shall be entered into the roll by the District Election Committee.
Article 38
(1) Any adjustments of election rolls shall be announced forthwith.
(2) Any deletion from the election rolls shall be made automatically prior to their printing or by means of a horizontal line so that to leave the deleted name legible where the deletion is done after the printing of the rolls. | |
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