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Article 47
 

(1) For the voters who cannot be moved for reasons of illness or invalidity, at the written request thereof, submitted on the day prior to the elections at the latest, along with copies of medical documents or other official documents to certify that the persons in question are not movable, 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 for voting – the stamp marked “VOTED” and ballot papers – to the place where the voter is, so that the voting may be carried out. Within the jurisdiction of a polling station there shall be used only one special ballot box. The special ballot box may be carried only by the members of the electoral bureau of the polling station. The special ballot box may be moved around only within the territorial area pertaining to the respective polling station.*


(2) For the cases provided for in paragraph (1) the voting shall be carriedout on the basis of an extract from the additional electoral roll. The persons whose names have been entered on the additional electoral roll shall be struck off the other rolls which are found at the station.


(3) The provisions of paragraphs (1) and (2) shall apply accordingly to thepersons detained, remanded in custody by warrant, or to the persons that are serving a custodial sentence, but have not lost their electoral rights.


* According to the Decision of the Central Electoral Bureau No. 4H/2014, published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, No. 244 of 4 April 2014, the special ballot box shall be used only at the polling stations at home; the polling stations abroad shall not have or use special ballot boxes.