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ID card holders in Latvia eligible to vote with a personalized voter card
BC, Riga, 14.07.2014.
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Print versionLatvian Saeima passed amendments to the Saeima Elections Law in the final reading today, stipulating that citizens who do not have a passport but hold an electronic identification (eID) card instead will be eligible to vote in this year's Saeima elections by presenting a personalized voter card verified by the Central Election Commission of Latvia, informs LETA.
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Citizens who do not have a passport but hold an ID card will be able to receive voter cards at the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs from September 22 to October 3.
Those citizens who have a voter card and, by the Saeima elections, will also have acquired a passport, will have to present the passport together with the voter card.
The Central Election Commission estimates that the cost of one voter card could be EUR 0.16, thus, the total amount of the required funding could reach EUR 4,800.
The Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs believes that by the election time, there will be more than 30,000 voters in Latvia who only have the ID card and have no passport.
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