Romania

Article 3, paragraph 5 states:

Mentally defective or alienated people, laid under an interdiction, or the persons convicted to the loss of the electoral rights, by final judgement, shall not have the right to vote.

Article 42, paragraph 22(1) states:

For the electors who cannot be transported on grounds of illness or invalidity, the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station may approve, following their written request, accompanied of the copy of medical documents or other official documents attesting the fact that the respective persons cannot be transported, that a team formed of at least 2 members of the electoral bureau goes, with a special ballot box and with the material needed for the vote…to the place where the elector is, in order to carry out the vote.

Article 132 states:

…(2) The representatives of the political parties, political alliances, and electoral alliances, as well as of the organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities, in the electoral bureaux and offices may be replaced, at the request of those having put them forward, with the approval of the hierarchically superior electoral bureau, until the day prior to the day of vote, and in case of demise, illness or accidents, the very day of elections.

(3) The members of the electoral bureaux and offices who do not represent political parties, political alliances, electoral alliances or, as appropriate, organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities may be replaced, in case of demise, illness or accidents by those having appointed them, with the observance, as appropriate, of the terms stipulated in articles 13, 14, 16, 17, and 19.*…

Excerpts from Law no. 35/2008: Regulations on the Elections to the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate (2008)

Article 36, paragraph 2 states:

The mentally deficient or alienated persons, laid under interdiction, as well as the persons disenfranchised by a final decision of the court cannot vote.

Article 97, paragraph 1 states:

Vacancy of the office of President of Romania shall be due upon his resignation, removal from office, permanent impossibility to discharge his powers and duties, or death.

Article 98, paragraph 1 states:

In case of vacancy in the office of President, or if the President is suspended from office or is temporarily incapable to exercise his powers, the interim shall devolve, in this order, on the President of the Senate or the President of the Chamber of Deputies.

Excerpts from the Constitution of Romania (1991, last amended 2003)

Article 7, paragraph 2 states:

The voters who exercise their right to vote by means of the special ballot box…shall be registered on another table.

Article 7(6), paragraph 2 states:

The representatives of political formations in the electoral bureau may be replaced at the request of those who nominated them, with the approval of the hierarchically superior electoral bureau, till the day before voting day, and in case of demise, illness or accident, even on voting day, with the observance of the conditions stipulated under Art. 7(7) – 7(14).

Article 19(6), paragraph 1 states:

For the voters in Romania who are unfit to be moved for reasons of illness or disablement, at the written request thereof, submitted on the eve of the voting at the latest, accompanied by copies of medical or other official documents certifying that the persons in question are unfit to be moved, the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station may approve that a team made up of at least two members of the electoral bureau goes with a special ballot box and the material required by the voting…Within the jurisdiction of a polling station there shall be used only one special ballot box…

Excerpt from Law no. 370/2004: Regulations on the Election of the President of Romania (2004, last amended 2009)