Moldova

Electoral Code of Moldova (2012)

Updated: June 2015

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Article 3 states:

Citizens of the Republic of Moldova have the right to elect and be elected regardless of race, nationality, ethnic origin, language, religion, gender, opinion, political affiliation, property or social origin.

 

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Article 13 states:

(1) The following individuals cannot vote:

  • (a) those who do not meet the requirements specified in Article 11;
  • (b) those declared incapacitated by a final decision of a court of law. The Mayor/after the implementation of the State Register of Voters, the Central Election Commission, is notified on the existence of such cases by the Ministry of Justice;

(2) The following individuals cannot be elected:

  • (a) active duty military personnel;
  • (b) persons mentioned in paragraph 1…

 

Article 20 states:

(1) The mandate of a Commission member shall be ended in the following circumstances: …

  • (d) incapacity to exercise the mandate; …

(2) Member of the Central Election Commission is dismissed by the authority that appointed him/her in the following cases: …

  • (c) declaration as a person with limited legal capacity or incapacitated by a final decision of the court of law; …
  • (f) state of incompatibility, established by a final ascertaining act.

 

Article 54, paragraph 1 states:

The ballot shall be filled out by the voter in a secret voting booth or room. A voter who is unable to fill out the ballot him/herself has the right to invite another individual into the voting booth, with the exception of members of the electoral bureau, representatives of electoral contestants, and persons authorized to observe electoral procedures. Such cases of assistance to unable person shall be mentioned in the report of precinct electoral bureau.

 

Article 55, paragraph 4 states:

If, for health or other well-grounded reasons, the voter is unable to come to the polling station, the precinct electoral bureau, at his/her oral or written request, will delegate no less than two members of the bureau with a mobile ballot box and all electoral materials necessary for voting at the place of voter’s residence to conduct the voting. Requests may be submitted in written starting with two weeks prior to the Election Day and not later than 6 p.m. of the day before Election. On the Election Day, the request may be submitted in written until 3 p.m., upon the presentation of a medical certificate. The voting at the place of voter’s residence is based on the voter list compiled by the precinct electoral bureau according to voters’ requests. The persons who are not entered in such a list will not be able to vote at the place of residence...

 

Article 56, paragraph 10 states:

All members of the precinct electoral bureau shall remain at the polling station and participate in the operations of the bureau during [the counting of the votes], unless prevented from doing so by a physical disability or other extraordinary circumstances.

 

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Article 29 states:

…(2) Precincts will be established by district electoral councils in localities based on the recommendation of mayors of towns (municipalities), districts and villages (communes), no later than 35 days before elections. Each precinct will have no less than 30 and no more than 3,000 voters. In elections at any level and in republican referenda, precincts will be established in private property premises and will be equipped in such a way so that to facilitate the access of the old and the disabled.

(3) Special precincts may also be established at hospitals, sanatoriums, maternity hospitals, asylums and homes for elderly. Such precincts must have no less than 30 voters.

 

Article 39, paragraph 6 states:

Voters’ lists for electoral precincts formed in rest houses, hospitals and other curative institutions, shall be drawn up on the basis of own declaration of residence or of data presented by the heads of the above-mentioned institutions.

 

Article 54, paragraph 1 states:

The ballot shall be filled out by the voter in a secret voting booth or room. A voter who is unable to fill out the ballot him/herself has the right to invite another individual into the voting booth, with the exception of members of the electoral bureau, representatives of electoral contestants, and persons authorized to observe electoral procedures. Such cases of assistance to unable person shall be mentioned in the report of precinct electoral bureau.

 

Article 55, paragraph 4 states:

If, for health or other well-grounded reasons, the voter is unable to come to the polling station, the precinct electoral bureau, at his/her oral or written request, will delegate no less than two members of the bureau with a mobile ballot box and all electoral materials necessary for voting at the place of voter’s residence to conduct the voting. Requests may be submitted in written starting with two weeks prior to the Election Day and not later than 6 p.m. of the day before Election. On the Election Day, the request may be submitted in written until 3 p.m., upon the presentation of a medical certificate. The voting at the place of voter’s residence is based on the voter list compiled by the precinct electoral bureau according to voters’ requests. The persons who are not entered in such a list will not be able to vote at the place of residence. On the voter list at the polling station next to the name of such persons a note shall be made ‘Voted at the place of residence.'

 

Article 56, paragraph 10 states:

All members of the precinct electoral bureau shall remain at the polling station and participate in the operations of the bureau during [the counting of the votes], unless prevented from doing so by a physical disability or other extraordinary circumstances.

 

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Article 13 states:

(1) The following individuals cannot vote:

  • (a) those who do not meet the requirements specified in Article 11;
  • (b) those declared incapacitated by a final decision of a court of law. The Mayor/after the implementation of the State Register of Voters, the Central Election Commission, is notified on the existence of such cases by the Ministry of Justice;

(2) The following individuals cannot be elected:

  • (a) active duty military personnel;
  • (b) persons mentioned in paragraph 1…

 

Article 16, paragraph 3 states:

The members of the Central Electoral Commission are irremovable. […] Demission can be executed by the Parliament in the following cases: (c) the person declared functionally limited or functionally incapacitated by a final court decision.

 

Article 20 states:

(1) The mandate of a Commission member shall be ended in the following circumstances: …

  • (d) incapacity to exercise the mandate; …

(2) Member of the Central Election Commission is dismissed by the authority that appointed him/her in the following cases: …

  • (c) declaration as a person with limited legal capacity or incapacitated by a final decision of the court of law; …
  • (f) state of incompatibility, established by a final ascertaining act.

 

Article 56, paragraph 10 states:

All members of the precinct electoral bureau shall remain at the polling station and participate in the operations of the bureau during [the counting of the votes], unless prevented from doing so by a physical disability or other extraordinary circumstances.

 

Excerpts from the Electoral Code of Moldova (2012)