Your new name will be automatically registered on the central electoral register. You can request the issuing of your new personal documents at a government window.
To participate in the election, your particulars on the central electoral register need to appear in your personal documents (identity card, driving license, address card). For this to be done, we suggest you apply for new documents prior to the election.
If, due to administrative reasons, one of your documents (e.g., your address card) contains your new name whereas another still bears your former name, your identity will be established by the polling station commission based on other particulars on your documents.
The polling station commission will proceed the same way if you have not requested new documents until election day, and you want to identify yourself with your previous documents. In any case, it makes the identification easier if you bring with you an extract of your marriage certificate to the polling station , proving the name change.
I am a disabled person. What help can I ask for?
Voters with disability may request the following assistance from their election office in exercising their voting rights:
notification in Braille transcription sent to their address,
simplified information material sent to their address,
use of a Braille voting template at the polling station or during mobile voting,
use of an accessible polling station.
Voters with a disability may request a mobile ballot box after the day of election has been set.
A person chosen by you may help you while filling in the ballot paper, or if there is no such a person present, two members of the polling station commission can be at your service.
How can homeless people vote?
In case a homeless person has a residence of settlement level, they have the right to vote at the polling station designated in that settlement.
In case a homeless person does not have a residence of settlement level either, they should file their application for registration to any local election office or the National Election Office. (They should contact the local election office in person or by mail, and the National Election Office by mail or on-line.)
When and how can I apply for changing polling district during the parliamentary election?
A request for changing polling district (i. e. absentee voting) may be submitted by voters who will be within the territory of Hungary on election day, but in the area of a different polling district than the one of their Hungarian address.
A request for changing polling district can be submitted to the local election office as per residence (or it can be requested even at the local election office per residence in person) no later than 16.00 o’clock on Friday 6 April 2018. The head of the local election office (the clerk) will not issue a written (printed) certification, but will register the voter’s name directly on the electoral list.
It is also important to note that changing polling district allows voters to cast their votes for a candidate of their residence.
Who can apply for a mobile ballot box and how?
Applications for mobile voting may be submitted by voters listed in the polling district electoral register who are limited as to their movement:
due to their health condition (or disability), or
detention.
Applications for mobile voting for any other reasons (e.g., convenience) will be rejected by the local election office or by the polling station commission.
When voting by mobile ballot box, two members of the polling station commission go, on election day, to the address (e.g., a hospital) given by the voter.
Mobile ballot box can be applied for from the local election office till 16.00 o’clock on 6 April 2018, or from the polling station commission till 15.00 o’clock on 8 April 2018, the day of the election.
If, on election day, a person is in a different settlement than that of his residence, or he/ she is in the area of another polling district of the settlement of their residence, he can apply for a mobile box at that address. In this case, in a first step, he has to register on the electoral list of his residence. Once the new registration is done, he/ she can request a mobile ballot box.
It is also important to note that those who have applied for a mobile ballot box cannot vote „by the normal way” at polling district, but only by mobile voting.
Are my details given to the political parties?
For the purpose of direct political campaigning, candidates and parties can obtain, by means of payments, the names and addresses of voters enrolled in the electoral register. But voters have also the right to prohibit the release of their details for campaign purposes. Request for prohibition can be filed in person at the local election office as of residence, by mail or here. For the request to be submitted by mail, a form can be downloaded here.
If one has already requested the prohibition of their details (e.g., before the 2014 election), it remains valid until its withdrawal, and there is no need for another application.
