Non-Luxembourg residents must register on the electoral roll before 17 April in order to vote in the 11 June local elections. And voting is compulsory for all voters registered on the electoral roll.
In case you’re absent or it’s impossible to go to the polls that day, a postal voting system is set up. In order to benefit from this system, you simply need to submit a request: either via the Myguichet.lu website, or by post on plain paper or on a form to be collected from the municipality in which you reside.
Applications to vote by post have been open from Monday 20 March. The deadline for making this request is 17 May at the latest for a summons in Luxembourg.
In order to be eligible for postal voting and for the application to be considered complete, an applicant must provide certain basic information such as their surname and first name(s), date and place of birth, home address and the address to which the invitation is to be sent.
The other condition is prior registration on the electoral roll. If the application is refused because the application is incomplete or because the voter is not registered, the voter will be informed at least 20 days before the election if he or she lives in the grand duchy and 35 days before if he or she lives abroad.
At home, the voter who has requested to vote by post will receive a letter of invitation including the list of candidates and the instructions to voters, an electoral envelope and a ballot paper duly stamped as well as an envelope for the transmission of the electoral envelope, bearing the words “Elections--Vote by post,” the indication of the polling station to which the vote is to be sent at the bottom right-hand corner and the serial number, the surname, the first names and the address of the voter at the top left-hand corner.
The ballot paper must then be returned to the polling station as indicated in the invitation. The envelopes containing the votes must reach the polling station no later than 2pm on the day of the election.
This story was first published in French on . It has been translated and edited for Delano.