Illustration from the voting sections, in the parliamentary elections in Cluj-Napoca, December 1, 2024. Inquam Photos / Simion Sebastian Tataru
The Central Electoral Bureau transmitted a circular on Wednesday in which it comes with details in the case of voters holding electronic identity cards from which the mention regarding the home address was eliminated, informs AGERPRES.
The document was transmitted to the permanent electoral authority, the county electoral offices and the electoral offices of the Bucharest municipality sectors, for the good elections of May 4, being targeted the voters who will be passed in the additional electoral list.
By art. II point 6 of the Government Emergency Ordinance no. 17/2025 for amending and completing Law no. 119/1996 regarding the civil status documents, as well as the Government Emergency Ordinance no. 97/2005 regarding the record, domicile, residence and identity documents of the Romanian citizens were eliminated from the electronic identity cards in printed format the mention of the home address, recalls BEC.
“Thus, in the case of persons who will exercise their right to vote on the basis of such an electronic identity card at a polling station where they are registered in the additional electoral list, the members of the electoral bureau of the polling station are unable to complete with information proved by an officially inscribed the section for the domicile of the votoral in the respective list, The voter, the president of the Electoral Bureau of the Voting Section must call the Technical Support Center provided by the Special Telecommunications Service, from where he will be redirected to the General Directorate for the Evidence of Persons, who will
Communicate the information regarding the domicile of the voter necessary for the correct completion of the additional electoral list ”, shows in the circular bulb.
At the presidential elections, the voter votes at one of the following sections:
- If it is in the administrative-territorial unit where it has its domicile or residence, it can only vote at the polling station where the street or locality is shown or residence, according to the law; the voter with his domicile or residence in the municipality of Bucharest cannot exercise his right to vote at a section located in a sector other than the one in which he has his domicile or residence, but can exercise his right to vote on any polling station located in another county;
- If it is in another administrative-territorial unit than the one where it has its domicile or residence, it can vote at any polling station within it;
- If he is abroad, he can vote at any polling station organized abroad.
