Traduction de «Heures de scrutin décalées » (Français → Anglais) :

8. Proposes, despite the fact that Member States are free to determine the day(s) of the elections within the electoral period, that elections in all Member States end by 21:00 hours CET on the Sunday of the European elections, as this would ensure the correct application of Article 10(2) of the Electoral Act and thus reduce the possibility of the outcome of the elections being influenced if the election results in some Member States are made public before the close of polling in all Member States; advocates that the ban on early announcement of the election results should remain in force in all Member States;

As, currently, no Member State has a general policy granting other Member States' nationals residing on its territory the right to vote in national elections[30], disenfranchised EU citizens are usually left without the right to vote in national elections in any of the Member States.

Actually, my question was going to follow up on Mr. Reid's comments and questions about the staggered voting hours and on exactly the problem Mr. Kingsley just referred to, about it being at the Supreme Court and about the whole business with modern technology, the difficulty of trying to contain election results in one part of the country while the polls are still open in another. You've already addressed that.

E. whereas, on state elections day, polling stations opened very late or not at all, lacked sufficient materials, and had an insufficient number of election officials, most of them without adequate training,

E. whereas, on state elections day, polling stations opened very late or not at all, lacked sufficient materials, and had an insufficient number of election officials, most of them without adequate training,

The introduction of staggered voting hours to accommodate the country's different time zones proved successful and achieved the desired results, although electors in part of Saskatchewan were the last to cast their ballots.